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COURT NO.4 S U P R E M E C O U R T O F RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
SECTION PIL-W I N D I A
SMW (Crl.)No(s).3/2015 IN RE: PRAJWALA LETTER DATED 18.2.2015 VIDEOS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RECOMMENDATIONS (With appln.(s) for impleadment) Date : 18-09-2017 This petition was called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MADAN B. LOKUR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE UDAY UMESH LALIT Ms. N.S. Nappinai, Adv. (A.C.) For Petitioner(s)
For Respondent(s) For CBI/MHA
Ms. Aparna Bhat, AOR Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Mayank Sapra, Adv. Mr. Ms. Mr. Ms. Mr. Mr. Mr. Ms. Mr. Mr. Mr. Ms. Mr.
R. Balasubramanian, Adv. Gunwant Dara, Adv. S.A. Haseeb, Adv. Rashmi Malhotra, Adv. P.K. Dey, Adv. T.A. Khan, Adv. Prabhas Bajaj, Adv. Aarti Sharma, Adv. B.V. Balaram Das, Adv. Akshay Amritanshu, Adv. Raj Bahadur Yadav, Adv. Sushma Suri, AOR Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR
Yahoo
Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.
Samir Ali Khan, AOR Sanjay Kumar, Adv. Soham Kumar, Adv. Ginni Sehgal, Adv. Kushank Sindhu, Adv.
Facebook Ireland
Mr. Ms. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.
Sidharth Luthra, Sr. Adv. Richa Srivastava, Adv. Tejas Chhabra, Adv. Nitin Saluja, Adv. Kumar Vaibhav, Adv. S. S. Shroff, AOR
Signature Not Verified Digitally signed by SANJAY KUMAR Date: 2017.09.19 16:38:12 IST Reason:
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Ms. Richa Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Pranav Awasthi, Adv. Mr. S. S. Shroff, AOR
Google
Dr. A.M. Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Ms. Ruby Singh Ahuja, Adv. Mr. Vishal Gehrana, Adv. Ms. Tahira Karanjawala, Adv. Mr. Arvind Chari, Adv. Mr. Shravan Sahny, Adv. Mrs. Manik Karanjawala, Adv. for M/s. Karanjawala & Co.
Microsoft
Mr. Amar Gupta, Adv. Mr. Divyam Agarwal, AOR Mr. Akhil Bhardwaj, Adv.
Whatsapp
Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr.
Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv. Tejas Karia, Adv. Shashank Mishra, Adv. Koshy John, Adv. Raghav Tankha, Adv. Ashwin Reddy, Adv. S.S. Shroff, AOR Vivek Reddy, Adv.
UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R We counsel
have for
heard the
learned
parties
as
amicus well
curiae as
Mr.
and
learned
Ajay
Kumar,
Chairperson of the Committee appointed by this Court. Mr. Ajay Kumar informs us that there are objections to some of the proposals and recommendations made by the Committee.
He has prepared a chart of those proposals
and recommendations to which there is an objection. Learned counsel for the parties say that they would like to make submissions and substantiate the basis of those objections, but request that the hearing should be held in-camera.
We have no objection in conducting the
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the
purpose
of
conducting
the
proceedings
in-camera, the following steps need be taken: (i)
The
Advocate-on-Record
for
the
parties
may
obtain a copy of the report, both volumes, from their respective clients. (ii) list
The of
the
concerned
Advocate-on-Record
Advocates
and
any
will
person
or
give
a
persons
representing any of the parties before us to the Court Master so that entry of any third party is ruled out.
We
make it clear that the representatives of the companies should be only from those who had participated in the discussions. (iii)
Mr. Ajay Kumar has received a joint statement
from the parties giving their objections to the proposals and recommendations being made public. for
the
parties
statement.
They
say will
that file
Learned counsel
they
endorse
an
individual
the
joint
affidavit
endorsing the joint statement and also indicating reasons for objections to the discussions being made public. Presence of learned counsel appearing for the States is dispensed with until further orders. With regard to the second issue before us, viz., the disclosure of the number of complaints that have been received, learned counsel for the parties say that they require
some
more
time
to
file
an
affidavit may be filed within two weeks.
affidavit.
The
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The
Union
of
India
should
file
an
affidavit
indicating the number of prosecutions launched within two days. List the matter on 23rd October, 2017 at 2.00 p.m. The hearing will continue the next day if necessary.
(SANJAY KUMAR-I) AR-CUM-PS
(KAILASH CHANDER) COURT MASTER
