Brief Summary:
- Background: Writ petition was filed by Rajive Raturi, a person with disability, seeking directions from the Supreme Court of India to ensure accessibility and inclusion for persons with disabilities in various spheres of life.
- Issues: The petition raises several issues related to the rights and welfare of persons with disabilities, such as the implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016, the provision of reasonable accommodation, the availability of assistive devices and technologies, the accessibility of public buildings and transport, the reservation of jobs and educational opportunities, and the participation in sports and cultural activities.
- Order: In its order, the Hon’ble Supreme Court on 12 January 2024, allows the request of Professor Amita Dhanda, Head of the Centre for Disability Studies at NALSAR University of Law, to reimburse the expenses incurred by her in submitting a report on the status of implementation of the Court’s directions. The Court also directs the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities in the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to bear the expenses and to cooperate with the Centre for Disability Studies.
Citation:
Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s).243/2005 {RAJIVE RATURI VS. UNION OF INDIA & ORS.}
Judgment Text:
ITEM NO.30 COURT NO.1 SECTION PIL-W
S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s).243/2005
RAJIVE RATURI Petitioner(s)
VERSUS
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)
([FOR DIRECTION] [ALONGWITH E-MAIL DATED 29-11-2023]
(WITH IA No. 96423/2018 – I/A FOR FILING STATUS REPORT CUM ACTION TAKEN REPORT – PER BY CM, IA No. 89088/2018 – INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 96163/2018 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT)
Date : 12-01-2024 This petition was called on for hearing today.
CORAM :
HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE
HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE J.B. PARDIWALA HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ MISRA
For Petitioner(s) Ms. Mugdha, Adv.
Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Mr. Kamrna Khwaja, Adv.
For Respondent(s) Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G.
Mr. S.W.A Qadri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Siddharth Sinha, Adv. Mrs. Sunita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Atrey, Adv. Mr. R.R Rajesh, Adv.
Mr. Nachiketa Joshi, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR
Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mrs. Anu K Joy, Adv.
Mr. Abraham Mathew, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv.
Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Manendra Pal Gupta, Adv. Mr. Varun Varma, Adv.
Mr. M. Bangaraswamy, Adv.
Ms. Diksha Rai, AOR
Mr. Kumarpal R Chopra,, Adv. Mr. Arijit Dey, Adv.
Ms. Atiga Singh, Adv.
Ms. Apurva Sachdev, Adv.
Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv.
Mr. M. T. George, AOR Mr. V. K. Verma, AOR
Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR Mrs. Niranjana Singh, AOR
Mr. Raj Singh Rana, AOR
Mr. Omkar Deshpande, Adv.
Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv.
Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv. Ms. Raavi Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR
Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Ms. Shubhangi Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Apurv Singhvi, Adv.
Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Rohan Darade, Adv.
Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR
Mr. Vishwanathan Iyer, Adv. Ms. Shimpy Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Arman Sharma, Adv. Ms. Jyoti Mehra, Adv.
Ms. Yeshasvi Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Jindal, AOR
Mr. Jatinder Kumar Sethi, D.A.G. Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv.
M/S. Corporate Law Group, AOR Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR
Mr. Bhakti Vardhan Singh, AOR Mr. Ankit Khatri, Adv.
Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Anand Kumar Dubey, Adv. Ms. Harsha Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Maneesh Pathak, Adv. Mr. Anil Shrivastav, AOR
Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Mrs. B. Sunita Rao, AOR
Ms. Ruchira Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shishir Deshpande, AOR Ms. Harshita Sharma, Adv. Ms. Swati Jain, Adv.
Ms. Pooja Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Tejaswin Suri, Adv.
Mr. Vivek Jain, D.A.G. Ms. Nupur Kumar, AOR Mr. Abhinav Jain, Adv.
Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, AOR Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR Mr. Kuldip Singh, AOR
Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv.
Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv. Mr. R. Rajaselvan, Adv.
Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. Rushab Aggarwal, Adv.
Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Ms. Maitreyee Jagat Joshi, Adv. Mr. Astik Gupta, Adv.
Ms. Riddhima J Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Japnish Singh Bhatia, Adv.
Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Mr. Karan Bishnoi, Adv.
Mr. Rajesh Srivastava, AOR Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR
Mr. Chaitanya Sharma, Adv. Ms. Aswathi M.K., AOR
Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR
Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR
Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR Ms. Beena Victor, Adv.
Mr. Vivek Guruprasad Ballekere, Adv. Mr. Keerthipriyan E, Adv.
Ms. M Priya, Adv.
M/S. Plr Chambers And Co., AOR Mr. Sahil Bhalaik, AOR
Mr. Tushar Giri, Adv.
Mr. Siddharth Anil Khanna, Adv. Ms. Gulshan Jahan, Adv.
Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR
Mr. Barun Kumar Sinha, A.A.G. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR
Ms. Ekta Bharati, Adv. Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR
Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR Mr. Dhananjay Kataria, Adv.
Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Ms. G. Indira, AOR
Mr. Harnaman Singh, Adv. Mr. Rahul Tiwari, Adv.
Mr. Gandeepan, Adv.
Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Mr. Abbas, Adv.
Ms. Kavya Geetha, Adv.
Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G. Mr. Wasim Quadri, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Sidhant Sinha, Adv. Mrs. Sunita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Atrey, Adv. Mr. Akshey Amritanshu, Adv. Mr. Nachiketa Joshi, Adv.
Mr. R.R. Rajesh, Adv.
Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR
Mr. K.M. Natraj, A.S.G. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv. Mrs. Indira Bhakar, Adv.
Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Adv. Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv.
Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv. Mr. Harish Pandey, Adv.
Mr. Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Krishan Kant Dubey, Adv.
Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, AOR
Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Mrs. Shashi Pathak, Adv.
Mr. Prashant Shrikant Kenjale, AOR
Mr. Sudarshan Singh Rawat, AOR Mr. Mohit Kaushik, Adv.
Mr. S Sunil, Adv.
Mr. Nikhil Goel, AOR Ms. Naveen Goel, Adv.
Mr. Adithya Koshy Roy, Adv. Ms. Siddhi Gupta, Adv.
Ms. Radhika Gautam, AOR
Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR
Mr. Shovan Mishra, AOR Ms. Bipasa Tripathy, Adv.
Ms. Sneha Kalita, AOR
Mr. Jatinder Kumar Sethi, D.A.G. Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv.
Ms. Enakshi Mukhopadhyay Siddhanta, AOR Mr. Sovon Siddhanta, Adv.
Mr. K.G. Kannan, Adv. Mr. Saravanan A, Adv.
Mr. Pramod Dayal, AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR
Ms. Manisha Ambwani, AOR
Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv.
Mr. Mahesh Thakur, AOR Mr. Naresh Kumar, AOR Mr. Anil Shrivastav, AOR
Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mrs. Anu K Joy, Adv.
Mr. Abraham Mathew, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv.
Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Ms. Swathi H Prasad, Adv.
Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR
Mr. Rajiv Kumar Choudhry , AOR
Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv. Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, AOR
Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR
Ms. Abhivyakti Banerjee, Adv. Ms. Aditya Pratap Swain, Adv. Mr. Gajendra Singh Negi, Adv. Ms. Sakshi Garg, Adv.
Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR
Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Rohit Bansal, Adv.
Ms. Kshitij Singh, Adv. Mr. Sohhom Sau, Adv.
Mr. Ratan Kumar Choudhuri, AOR Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR
Mr. Aakash Nandolia, Adv. Ms. Sagun Srivastava, Adv.
Ms. Lihzu Shiney Konyak, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR
Dr. Monika Gusain, AOR
Mr. Gautam Narayan, AOR Ms. Asmita Singh, Adv.
Mr. Harshit Goel, Adv. Mr. Sujay Jain, Adv.
Mr. K.V. Vibu Prasad, Adv.
Mr. Apoorv Kurup, AOR Ms. Nidhi Mittal, Adv. Ms. Aparna Arun, Adv.
Ms. Gauri Goburdhun, Adv.
Mr. Gurjas Singh Narula, Adv. Ms. Aanchal, Adv.
Mr. Akhil Hasija, Adv. Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR
Mr. Gaurav Sharma, AOR Mr. Dhawal Mohan, Adv. Mr. Prateek Bhatia, Adv.
Mr. Paranjay Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Raj, Adv.
Ms. Ankita Dogra, Adv.
Ms. Devina Sehgal, AOR Mr. Dhananjay Yadav, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Ashaab, Adv.
UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following
O R D E R
- The Registry has placed these proceedings pursuant to an email dated 31 December 2023 of Professor Amita Dhanda, Head of the Centre for Disability Studies (CDS) at NALSAR University of law.
- NALSAR has accepted the assignment which has been entrusted by the order of this Court dated 29 November
- Professor Dhanda has indicated that since the resources of NALSAR may not match the task to be undertaken, the expenses incurred by CDS in submitting the report should be reimbursed by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities in the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Professor Dhanda has fairly stated that CDS will undertake the task “by observing all the norms of financial frugality that should inform public spending”.
- We, therefore, allow the request and direct that the expenses which are incurred by CDS of NALSAR University of Law shall be borne by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities in the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. All reimbursements shall be made within a fortnight of the submission of
- The Head of CDS would be at liberty to chalk out the modalities for implementing the work, including by engaging requisite experts and field workers, who will carry out the exercise in the States and Union
(SANJAY KUMAR-I) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR)
DEPUTY REGISTRAR ASSISTANT REGISTRAR