Citation:
2025 SCC OnLine SC 449
Appellants:
Radhika Agarwal
Respondents:
Union of India
Advocates who appeared in this case
For Petitioner(s):
Mr. Vikam Chaudhary, Sr. Adv. Dr. G.K. Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Keshvam Chaudhari, Adv. Mr. Harshit Sethi, Adv. Mrs. Malbika Sarkar, Adv. Ms. Arveen Sekon, Adv. Mr. Ayush Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Prashant Srivastav, Adv. Ms. Malvika Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Rishi Shegal, Adv. Mr. Digvijay Singh, Adv. Ms. Nikita Gill, Adv. Mr. Sameer Pandey, Adv. Mr. Deepak Singh, Adv. Mr. Kartik Yadav, Adv. Ms. Aneesha Singh, Adv. Ms. Chandni Sharma, Adv. Ms. Muskan Khurana, Adv. Mr. Ayush Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Sahil Sharma, Adv. Mr. Devanshu Yadav, Adv. Mr. Gautam Awasthi, AOR Mr. Umesh Kumar Shukla, Adv. Mr. Kapil Dahiya, Adv. Mr. V.N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. R. Gopinath, Adv. Mr. Hari Krishnan, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. S. Nagamuthu, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Jain, AOR Mr. Parmatama Singh, Adv. Mr. Mayanak Jain, Adv. Mr. Madhur Jain, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Goel, Adv. Mr. R.P. Singh, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Anurag Mishra, Adv. Mr. Aman Sinha, Adv. Mr. Yash Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Raj Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Raj Shekhar Sharma, Adv. Ms. Alpana Sharma, AOR Mr. Vikram Chaudhri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Gautam Awasthi, Adv. Dr. G.K. Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Keshavam Chaudhri, Adv. Mr. Ayush Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Rishi Sehgal, Adv. Ms. Arveen Sekon, Adv. Ms. Malbika Sarkar, Adv. Ms. Hargun Sandhu, Adv. Mr. Prashant Srivastav, Adv. Mr. Digvijay Singh, Adv. Ms. Muskan Khurana, Adv. Ms. Aneesha Sinha, Adv. Mr. Rishab Tewri, Adv. Mr. Devanshu Yadav, Adv. Mr. Deepak Singh, Adv. Mr. Nikilesh Ramachandran, AOR Mr. Upendra Pratap Singh, AOR Mr. Kunwar Gangesh Singh, Adv. Mr. Jatin Harjai, Adv. Ms. Pratibha Singh, Adv. Mr. Mohit Kumar Soni, Adv. Ms. Richa Singh, Adv. Mr. Rohan Aggarwal, Adv. Ms. Yashvi Chechani, Adv. Ms. Madhulika Singh, Adv. Ms. Aarushi Bansal, Adv. Ms. Jaishree Kothari, Adv. Mr. Prativa Prakash Janapriya Nayak, AOR Ms. Anzu. K. Varkey, AOR Ms. Bharti Tyagi, AOR Mr. Amit K. Nain, AOR Mr. Tarun Gupta, AOR Mr. Siddharth Luthra, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sandeep Goyal, Adv. Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, AOR Mr. Vikram Chaudhri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nikhil Jain, AOR Mr. Rishi Sehgal, Adv. Ms. Arveen Sekhon, Adv. Ms. Muskaan Khurana, Adv. Ms. Divya Jain, Adv. Mr. Tarun Gulati, Sr. Adv. Mr. Saurabh Kirpal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhishek Garg, Adv. Mr. Amar Gahlot, Adv. Mr. Rajat Mittal, AOR Mr. Varun K Chopra, Adv. Mr. Ujjawal Kansal, Adv. Mr. Yash Gaiha, Adv. Ms. Anshi Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Apurva M Gokhale, Adv. Mr. Prashant Singh, Adv. Mr. Suprateek Neogi, Adv. Mr. Ranesh Mankotia, Adv. Mr. Priyanshu, Adv. Mr. Rohit Anil Rathi, AOR Mr. Yashas R.K., Adv. Ms. Niharika Singh, Adv. Mr. Jinendra Jain, AOR Mr. Ajay Jain, Adv. Mr. Krishna Sharma, Adv. Mr. M.N. Mishra, Adv. Ms. Shreya Jain, Adv. Mr. Manoj Gautam, Adv. Mr. Manoj, Adv. Ms. Mitika Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Harshit Batra, Adv. Mr. Vijay Kasana, AOR Mr. Tarun Dua, AOR Mr. Raj Kishor Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Javed R. Sheikh, Adv. Mr. Shakeel Ahmed, AOR Mr. Rizwan Ahmad, Adv. Mr. Paras Nath Singh, Adv. Mr. Anupam Bhati, Adv. Ms. Pratibha Singh, Adv. Mr. Nakul Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Gupta, Adv. Mr. Akhil Krishan Maggu, Adv. Mr. Deepak Gupta, Adv. Ms. Oshin Maggu, Adv. Mr. Ayush Mittal, Adv. Mr. Sujeet Kumar, Adv. M/s. V. Maheshwari & Co., AOR Mr. Ajay Choudhary, AOR Mr. Vijay Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Khem Chand, Adv. Mr. Yadav Narender Singh, AOR Mr. Sriharsha Peechara, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar Tiwari, AOR Mr. Anurag Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Duvvuri Subrahmanya Bhanu, Adv. Mr. Sahib Patel, Adv. Mr. Akshat Kulshrestha, Adv. Mr. Suryanarayana Singh, Sr. Adv. Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR Mr. Aditya Bhanu Neekhra, Adv. Mr. Atul Dong, Adv. Mr. Aniket Patel, Adv. Ms. Sharda Garg, Adv. Mr. Deepkaran Dalal, AOR Mr. Rahul Krishna, AOR Mr. Swarnendu Chatterjee, AOR Mr. Ujjawal Anand Sharma, Adv. Mr. Prashant Sivarajan, Adv. Mr. D. Kumanan, AOR Mr. Tushar Saigal, Adv. Mr. Justine George, Adv. Mr. Surya Kiran Singh, Adv. Mr. S. V. Raju, ASG Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Mr. Annam Venkatesh, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Vivek Gurnani, Adv. 6 Mr. Arkaj Kumar, Adv. Mr. Samrat Goswami, Adv. Mr. Hitharth Raja, Adv. Mr. Kanishk Maurya, Adv. Ms. Agrimaa Singh, Adv. Ms. Ritumbhara Garg, Adv. Mr. Suradhish Vats, Adv. Mr. Vivek Gaurav, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. Vinodh Kanna B., AOR Mr. M.K. Subramanian, Adv. Mr. Tarun Dev, Adv. Ms. Epil Moushmi Bodra, Adv. Ms. Kharunya, Adv. Mr. Mohammad Aslam, AOR Mr. Prakhar Sharma, Adv. Ms. Piya Uppal, Adv. Ms. Anu Gupta, AOR Mr. Amjad Hussain, AOR Mr. Nishant Bishnoi, AOR Ms. Srishti Prabhakar, Adv. Ms. Natasha Dalmia, AOR Mr. Arman Roop Sharma, Adv. Ms. Shimpy Sharma, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Aman Khan Afghani, Adv. Dr. Vinod Kumar Tewari, AOR Mr. S.K. Verma, AOR Mr. Neeraj Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Alok Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Kunal Prakash, Adv. Mr. Puneet Jain, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mann Arora, Adv. Ms. Akriti Sharma, Adv. Mr. Harsh Jain, Adv. Mr. Om Sudhir Vidyarthi, Adv. Ms. Christi Jain, AOR Dr. Sushil Balwada, AOR Mr. Kaushal Yadav, Adv. Mr. Nandlal Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Ajay Gupta, AOR Mr. Gaurav, AOR Mr. D. Abhinav Rao, AOR Mr. Rahul Jajoo, Adv. Ms. Megha Shaw, Adv. Mr. Raghav Bherwani, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Das, Adv. Mr. Saket Sikri, Adv ,Mr. Ashish Batra, AOR Mr. Malak Manish Bhatt, AOR Ms. Neeha Nagpal, Adv. Mr. Shreyansh Chopra, Adv. Mr. Apurva Mehta, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi, AOR Mr. Yusuf, AOR Ms. Sharmila Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Pawan R Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. S.S. Sastry, Adv. Mr. Vipul Srivastava, Adv. M/s. Unuc Legal LLP, AOR Mr. Akshat Vachher, Adv. Mr. Shery Lodha, Adv. Mr. Aman Vachher, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, Adv. Mr. Dhiraj, Adv. Ms. Abhiti Vachher, Adv. Mr. Parvesh Bansal, Adv. Mr. Jasvinder Choudhary, Adv., M/s. Vachher And Agrud, AOR Mr. S. Gowthaman, AOR Mr. Ashutosh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Srishti Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Shefali Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Namita Choudhary, AOR Mr. Aljo K. Joseph, AOR Mr. Sheikh Mohsin, Adv. Mr. Vinay Kumar Puvvala, Adv. Mr. N. Leela Vara Prasad, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhinav P Dhanodkar, Adv. Mr. Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, AOR Mr. Avadh Bihari Kaushik, AOR Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Raj Kamal, AOR Mr. Aseem Atwal, Adv. Mr. Anurag Chandra, Adv. Ms. Nupur Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Ranjit Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Rishi Agrawala, Adv. Ms. Komal Joshi, Adv. Mr. Pushkraj Despande, Adv. Mr. Anshuman Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Arshit Anand, Adv. Mr. Piyush Pandhare, Adv. Mr. Nishant Rao, Adv. Mr. Rohan Marathe, Adv. Mr. Abhinabh Garg, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Saraswat, Adv. Ms. Sayaree Basu Malik, Adv. Ms. Manavi Agarwal, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Kunal Verma, AOR Mr. Prasouk Jain, Adv. Ms. Rabiya Thakur, Adv. Mr. Karan Sinha, Adv. Mr. Anurag Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anshuman Srivastava, AOR Mr. Raj Kishor Choudhary, AOR Mr. Shivam Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shakeel Ahmed, Adv. Ms. Pratibha Singh, Adv. Mr. Vikram Patralekh, Adv. Mr. Nakul Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Gupta, Adv. Mr. Rishabh Sancheti, Adv. Mr. Armaan Arora, Adv. Ms. Divya Roy, AOR Mrs. Priya Puri, AOR Mr. Anand Varma, AOR Mrs. Anjali Jha Manish, AOR Mr. Siddharth Luthra, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sandeep Goyal, Adv. Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, AOR
For Respondent(s):
M/s. Khaitan & Co., AOR Mr. Nikhil Jain, AOR Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Shamik Shirishbhai Sanjanwala, AOR Dr. Sujay Kantawala, Adv. Mr. Azmat Hayat Amanullah, AOR Ms. Rebecca Mishra, Adv. Mr. Ajay Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Naveen Bindal, Adv. Mr. Rajan Narain, AOR Mr. Tarun Dua, AOR Ms. Diksha Rai, AOR Ms. Atiga Singh, Adv. Mr. Piyush Vyas, Adv. Ms. Purvat Wali, Adv. Dr. Vijendra Singh, AOR Mr. Deepak Goel, Adv. Mr. Kumar Abinandan, Adv. Ms. Apurva Mahndiyan, Adv. Ms. Rashi Bansal, AOR Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Ms. Devina Sehgal, AOR Mr. Yatharth Kansal, Adv. Mr. Dhananjay Yadav, Adv. Mr. M.K. Subramanian, Adv. Mr. Vinodh Kanna B., AOR Ms. Kharunya, Adv. Mr. Tarun Dev, Adv. Ms. Epil Moushmi Bodra, Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR Mr. Shrirang B. Varma, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, S.G. Mr. S.V. Raju, A.S.G. Mr. K.M. Nataraj, A.S.G. Mr. G.S. Makkar, Adv. Ms. Sairica Raju, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. Annam Venkatesh, Adv. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Gadhe, Adv. Mr. Arkaj Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sharath Nambiar, Adv. Mr. Vivek Gurnani, Adv. Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Mr. Padmesh Mishra, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, S.G. Mr. Suryaprakash V. Raju, A.S.G. Mr. Zoheb Hossain, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Ms. Sairica Raju, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Gadhe, Adv. Mr. Annam Venkatesh, Adv. Mr. Hitarth Raja, Adv. Mr. Harsh Paul Singh, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Animesh Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. Sathvik Reddy Sudireddy, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Samrat Goswami, Adv. Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Yadav, Adv. Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mrs. Anu K. Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Santhosh K, Adv. Mr. Vishal Meghwal, Adv. Dr. Charu Mathur, Adv. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. B.S. Rajesh Agrajit, Adv. Mr. Manish Chaubey, Adv. Ms. Dipti Singh, Adv. Mr. Vidhan Vyas, Adv. Mr. Kausar Raza Faridi, AOR Mr. Syed Haider Shah, Adv. Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv. Mr. Bhakti Vardhan Singh, AOR Mr. Rajesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Disha Singh, AOR Ms. Sanya Kaushal, Adv. Mr. Deepak Thukral, A.A.G. Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, AOR Mr. Vishal Mahajan, Adv. Ms. Sabarni Som, Adv. Mr. Aman Dev Sharma, Adv. Mr. Fateh Singh, Adv. Mr. Keshav Mittal, Adv. M/s. Khaitan & Co., AOR Mr. Annam Venkatesh, AOR Mr. Rajat Mittal, AOR Mr. Suprateek Neogi, Adv. Mr. Priyanshu, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, AOR Mr. Malak Manish Bhatt, AOR Mr. Ashish Batra, AOR Mr. Nikilesh Ramachandran, AOR Mr. Vikram Chaudhary, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashish Batra, Adv. Mr. Gautam Awasthi, AOR Mr. Deepak Singh, Adv. Mr. Shubham Bhalla, AOR Mr. Karan Bharihoke, AOR
