Editors Guild Of India vs Union Of India
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Bombay High Court

Editors Guild Of India vs Union Of India on 1 December, 2023

Author: Neela Gokhale

Bench: G.S. Patel, Neela Gokhale

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    IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
           ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION
                 WRIT PETITION (L) NO. 9792 OF 2023


 Kunal Kamra                                                       ...Petitioner
       Versus
 Union of India & Ors                                          ...Respondents

                          WITH
             WRIT PETITION (L) NO. 14955 OF 2023
                          WITH
          INTERIM APPLICATION (L) NO. 17704 OF 2023
                            IN
             WRIT PETITION (L) NO. 14955 OF 2023

 Editors Guild of India                                             ...Petitioner
       Versus
 Union of India & Ors                                          ...Respondents

                               WITH
                   WRIT PETITION NO. 7953 OF 2023
                  (CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION)

 Association of India Magazines                                     ...Petitioner
       Versus
 Union of India & Ors                                          ...Respondents


 Mr Navroz Seervai, Senior Advocate, with Darius Khambata,
      Senior Advocate, Arti Raghavan, Vrinda Bhandari, Gayatri
      Malhotra, Abhinav Sekhri & Tanmay Singh, i/b Meenaz
      Kakalia, for the Petitioner in WPL/9792/2023.
 Mr Shadan Farasat, with Hrishika Jha & Natasha Maheshwari, i/b


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      Bimal Rajsekhar for the Petitioner in WPL/14955/2023.
 Mr Gautam Bhatia, with Radhika Roy, i/b Aditi Saxena in
      WP/7953/2023.
 Mr Arvind Datar, Senior Advocate, with Nisha Bhambani, Rahul
      Unnikrishnan & Bharat Manghani, i/b Gautam Jain, for the
      Applicant in IAL/17704/2023.
 Mr Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General, with Devang Vyas, Additional
      Solicitor General, Rajat Nair, Gaurang Bhushan, Aman Mehta,
      DP Singh, Savita Ganoo, Anusha Amin, Vaishnavi, Bhuvnesh
      Kumar, Additional Secretary,Vikram Sahay, Director & Ritesh
      Kumar Sahu, Scientist D, for the Respondent-UoI in all matters.


                               CORAM     G.S. Patel &
                                         Neela Gokhale, JJ.

DATED: 1st December 2023 PC:-

1. On behalf of the learned Solicitor General the statement is made that the previous commitment will continue. Our judgment is not yet ready.

2. List the matter on Friday, 5th January 2024.

(Neela Gokhale, J) (G. S. Patel, J) {

1st December 2023