Explained | SC verdict slamming ‘builder-banks’ nexus in Delhi NCR and proposing CBI probe

Citation:
Special Leave to Appeal (C) No(s).7649/2023

Appellants :
Himanshu Gupta

Respondents :
Union of India

Advocates who appeared in this case

For Petitioner(s):
Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Anand, AOR Mr. Rishabh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Deepanshu Badiwal, Adv. Mr. Prabhat Ranjan Raj, Adv. Mr. Dhruva Vig, Adv. Mr. Dhruve Vig, Adv. Mr. Abhinay, AOR Mr. Pooran Chand Roy, Adv. Ms. Deeksha Prakash, Adv. Mr. Chinmoy Khaladkar, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Agnihotri, Adv. Mr. B. K. Pal, AOR Mr. Sahil Gupta, Adv. Mr. Dhananjai Jain, AOR Mr. Ritesh Khare, Adv., Mr. Naveen Rao, Adv. Ms. Namrata Chandorkar, Adv. Mr. Devendra Kumar Shukla, AOR Mr. Kanchan Kumar Jha, Adv. Mr. Rajat Dabas, Adv. Mr. Aditya Rana, Adv. Mr. Naveen Rao, Adv. Ms. Namrata Chandorkar, Adv. Mr. Devendra Kumar Shukla, AOR Mr. Kanchan Kumar Jha, Adv. Mr. Rajat Dabas, Adv. Mr. Aditya Rana, Adv. Mr. Lzafeer Ahmad B. F., AOR Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Ms. Paromita Majumdar, AOR Mr. Abhishek Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Abhinav Jaganathan, Adv. Mr. Paresh B. Lal, Adv. Mr. Aditya Bhattacharya, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Singh, Adv. Mr. Krishnamohan K., AOR Ms. Dania Nayyar, Adv. Ms. Priya, Adv. M/S. Lambat & Legiteam, AOR Mr. Kishor Lambat, Adv. Mr. Digant Mishra, Adv. Ms. Kashmira Lambat, Adv. Ms. Suja Joshi, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Deshwal, Adv. Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shreshth Nanda, Adv. Mr. Aditya Parolia, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Piyush Singh, Adv. Mr. Akshay Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Alankrit Bhatnagar, Adv. Mr. Vivek Kumar, Adv. Ms. Sumbul Ismail, Adv. Mr. Suryansh Vashisth, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Goel, AOR Mr. Himanshu Tyagi, AOR Mr. Prashant Singh, AOR Mr. Kapil Paliwal, Adv. Mr. Vijender Jain, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Dhingra, Adv. Mr. Anish Gupta, Adv. Ms. Raina Anand, Adv. Mr. Ankit Barman, Adv. Ms. Shilpi, Adv. Mr. Amit Verma , AOR Mr. Aditya Parolia, Adv. Mr. Piyush Singh, Adv. Ms. Kirti Dua, Adv. Mr. Akshay Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Alankrit Bhatnagar, Adv. Mr. Anshul Gupta, AOR Mr. Devansh Srivastava, AOR Mr. Nitin Goel, Adv. Mr. Mayank Goel, Adv. Mr. Akhil Rana, Adv. Mr. Mrinal Harsh Vardhan, Adv. Ms. Rituparna Patra, Adv. Ms. Akankrita Sinha, Adv. Dr. P.b.reddy, Adv. Ms. Patnam Shyla, Adv. Ms. C.S. Hema, Adv. Mr. Vijay Kumar, Adv. Mr. Chand Qureshi, AOR Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ankit Sharma, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Mishra, AOR Mr. Yashvardhan, Adv Mr. Piyush Singh, Adv. Mr. Neelaksh, Adv. Mr. Amritesh Raj, Adv. Ms. Anushka Soni, Adv. Mr. Nitesh Ranjan, AOR Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Ms. Ruchi Gupta , AOR Mr. Ankit Yadav, AOR Mr. Akshay Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Shresth Nanda, Adv. Mr. Manish Kr. Patni, Adv. Ms. Shaoni Das, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Goswami, Adv. Mr. Shivam Singh Tomar, Adv. Ms. Priya Nagr, Adv. Mr. Shyamal Kumar, AOR Mr. Tom Joseph, AOR Mr. Mohit Bidhuri, Adv. Mr. B. Ravindra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Patta Arun Kumar, Adv. Ms. Eshna Kumar, Adv. Ms. Vishakha, AOR Mr. Harpreet Singh Malhotra, Adv. Ms. Aditi Mohan, Adv. Mr. Mudit Gupta, AOR Mr. Ardhendumauli Kumar Prasad Sr. Adv. Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Ms. Maitreyee Jagat Joshi, Adv. Mr. Astik Gupta, Adv. Mr. Akanksha Tomar, Adv. Ms. Akanksha Tomar, Adv. Mr. Argha Roy, Adv. Mr. Raj Kishor Choudhary, AOR Mr. Shakeel Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Vikram Patralekh, Adv. Ms. Pratibha Singh, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Aslam, Adv. Mr. Vikramjeet Singh Ranga, Adv. Mr. Manoj Yadav, Adv. Mr. Ranbir Singh Yadav, AOR Mr. Rakesh Dahiya, AOR Mr. Praveen Kumar, Adv Mr. Vikram Gulia, Adv. Mr. Prashant Bhardwaj, AOR Mr. Rishi Bharadwaj, Adv. Mr. Rahul Mehalwal, Adv. Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Saurabh Jain, AOR Mr. P. K. Jain, Adv. Mr. P. K. Goswami, Adv. Mr. S. P. Singh Rathore, Adv. Mr. Vivek Jain, AOR Mr. Avinash Sharma, AOR Mr. Satish Muley, Adv. Mr. Pawan Kumar Ray, Adv. Mr. Shreshth Nanda, Adv. Mr. Riju Mani Talukdar, AOR Mr. Shikhar Singhal, Adv. Mr. Shourya Godara, Adv. Mr. Vivek Kumar, Adv. Ms. Neha Kumari, Adv. Mr. Anantha Narayana M.G., AOR Mr. Sanchit Garga, AOR Ms. Mithu Jain, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Jaiswal, Adv. Ms. Vishaka Panchal, Adv. Mr. Ashish Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Kushagra Bansal, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Baisoya, Adv. Mr. Vijay Kasana, AOR Mr. Kisalaya Shukla, AOR Mr. Krishna Kant Shukla, Adv. Mr. Makradhvaj Yadav, Adv. Ms. Varsha Dhami, Adv. Ms. Amruta Padhi, Adv. Mr. Sidhant Kumar, Adv. Ms. Manyaa Chandok, Adv. Ms. Ekssha Kashyap, Adv. Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR Mr. Rajat Mittal, AOR Ms. Pragya Barsaiyan, Adv. Mr. Suprateek Neogi, Adv. Mr. Rishi Kapoor, Adv. Ms. Deboleena Datta, Adv. Ms. Maitri Goal, Adv. Mr. Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Amit Wadhwa, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Hadala, Adv. Dr. Nitin Sharma, Adv. Dr. Sandip Singh, Adv. Mr. Virendra Verma, Adv. Mr. Vikrant Rana, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Dubey, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Yadav, Adv. Dr. Vinod Kumar Tewari, AOR Mr. Tushar Bhushan, AOR Mr. Amit Mishra, Adv. Ms. Mitakshara Goyal, Adv. Mr. Niwas Kumar, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Jeetendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Narendra Kumar Goyal, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Jugtawat, Adv. Ms. Kajal Rani, Adv. Mr. Ikshit Singhal, Adv. Ms. Sujata K Muni, Adv. Mr. Naveen Yadav, Adv. For M/S. Mukesh Kumar Singh And Co., AOR Mr. Rishi Kumar Singh Gautam, AOR Mr. Siddharth Mohan, Adv. Mr. Sachin Bajpai, Adv. Ms. Divya Singh, Adv. Mr. Abid Ali Beeran P, AOR Mr. Saswat Adhyapak, Adv. Ms. Namita Kumari, Adv. Mr. Mohit Bidhuri, Adv. Dr. Linto K.B., AOR Mr. Vijay K. Jain, AOR Mr. Parthapratim Chaudhuri, Adv. Mr. Satyendra Kumar, AOR Mr. H L Chumber, Adv. Ms. Roopa Paul, Adv. Mr. Parveen Paul, Adv. Mr. Roshan Singh Thakur, Adv. Mr. Vishal Rathee, Adv. Mr. Mareesh Pravir Sahay, AOR Ms. Yaman Verma, Adv. Ms. Srishti Malik, Adv. Ms. Chitra Chanda, Adv.

For Respondent(s):
Mr. N Venkatramani, A.S.G. Mrs. Nisha Bagchi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Shashank Bajpai, Adv. Mrs. Sushma Verma, Adv. Mr. Navanjay Mahapatra, Adv. Mr. Anuj Srinivasan Udupa, Adv. Mr. Kanu Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Annirudh Sharma II, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR Mr. Shubhendu Anand, Adv. Mr. Saransh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Aman Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sachin Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sushma Verma, Adv. Ms. Sweksha, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv. Mr. Ramesh Babu M. R., AOR Ms. Nisha Sharma, Adv. Mrs. Manisha Singh, Adv. Ms. Tanya Chowdhary, Adv. Ms. Jagriti Bharti, Adv. Mr. Rohan Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Rishi Tutu, Adv. Mr. Jaskaran Singh Bhatia, Adv. Ms. Khyati Khemka, Adv. Mr. R. C. Kohli, AOR Mr. Divyanshu Sahay, AOR Ms. Shradha Narayan, Adv. Mr. Akshay Sahay, Adv. Ms. Ayshwarya Chandar, AOR Mr. Ritesh Agrawal, AOR Mr. Sunder Khatri, Adv. Mr. Naman Khatri, Adv. Mr. Chirag Yogendra Mehta, Adv. Ms. Priyanshi Sharma, Adv. Mr. Rizwan Ahmad, AOR Mr. Himanshu Gupta, Adv. Mr. Mohd Tauheed, Adv. Mr. Anurag Tandon, AOR Mr. Ashish Makhija, Adv. Mr. Deep Bisht, Adv. M/S. D.S.K. Legal, AOR Ms. Ratna Dhingra, Adv. Mr. Bhrigu Dhami, Adv. Mr. Ashish Batra, AOR Mr. Brijesh Kumar Tamber, AOR Mr. Vinay Singh Bist, Adv. Mr. Prateek Kushwaha, Adv. Mr. Arani Mukherjee, Adv. Ms. Arani Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Yashu Rustagi, Adv. Mr. Sahas Bhasin, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Malhotra, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rachit Devgun, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Gupta, AOR Ms. Sugandha Sharma, Adv. Mr. Nimish Kumar, Adv. Ms. Kanchan Gupta, Adv. Mr. Avs Subramanyam, Adv. Mr. Niraj Kumar, Adv. Mr. T. R. B. Sivakumar, AOR Mr. Amar Dave, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Rishi Agrawala, Adv. Mr. Divyanshu Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Aryan Rachh, Adv. Mr. Karan Verma, Adv. Ms. Shivani Agarwal, Adv. Mrs. Shivani Agarwal, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Ms. Megha Gaur, Adv. Mr. Rajat Manchanda, Adv. Mr. Vibhav Mishra, Adv. Ms. Aditi Singhal, Adv. Mr. Parmanand Gaur, AOR Mr. Shekhar Raj Sharma, D.A.G. Mr. Lokesh Sinhal, Sr. A.A.G. Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, AOR Ms. Nidhi Narwal, Adv. Mr. Nikunj Gupta, Adv. Ms. Drishti Saraf, Adv. Ms. Pragya Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Aakanksha, Adv. Mr. Vishal Gupta, AOR Ms. Shally Bhasin, Adv. Mr. Rohan Arora, Adv. Mr. Prateek Gupta, Adv. Ms. Rachna Dubey, Adv. Ms. Rachna D Dubey, Adv. Mr. S. S. Shroff, AOR Mr. Anant Gautam, AOR Mr. Deepanjal Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Likivi Jakhalu, Adv. Mr. Kushagra Nilesh Sahay, Adv. Mr. Snehasish Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Ajay Uppal, Adv. Mr. Asit Kumar Royy, Adv. Mr. Asit Kumar Roy, Adv. Mr. Vishal Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ashish K Singh, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Manoneet Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Shaurya Vardhan Singh, Adv. Mr. Prakash Kumarmangalam, Adv. Ms. Niharika Rai, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Sagar, AOR Ms. Mehaak Jaggi , AOR Ms. Amrita Singh, AOR Mr. Ankit Gupta, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Chaubey, AOR Ms. Awantika Manohar, AOR Ms. Parul Dhurvey, Adv. Mr. Manish Paliwal, AOR Mr. Aditya Singh Bakshi, Adv. Mr. Tanmaya Agarwal, AOR Mr. Wrick Chatterjee, Adv. Mrs. Aditi Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Rudraksha Chandrayan, Adv. Mr. Rajat Joneja, Adv. Ms. Himanshi Madan, Adv. Mr. Rajesh P., AOR Mr. Shantanu Kumar, AOR Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Kumar , AOR Mr. Puneet Singh Bindra, Adv. Ms. Charu Modi, Adv. Mr. Rishabh Gupta, Adv. Ms. Kriti Dang, Adv. Mr. Puneet Singh Bindra, AOR Ms. Jasmine Damkewala, AOR Ms. Vaishali Sharma, Adv. Mr. Divyam Khera, Adv. Mr. Venancio Dcosta, Adv. Mr. Gauri Goel, Adv. Ms. Gauri Goel, Adv. Mr. Faisal Sherwani, AOR Mr. Anupam Singh, AOR Mr. Sushmit Mishra, Adv. Ms. Nika Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Sameer Kumar, AOR Mr. Ramesh N. Keswani, Adv. Mr. Pranav Singal, Adv. Mr. Ravi Raghunath Vachher, Adv. Mr. Arjun Vachher, Adv. Mr. R. N. Keswani, AOR Mr. Aditya Bakshi, Adv. Mr. Ananta Prasad Mishra, AOR Mr. Raunaq Dalal, Adv. Mr. Karan Singh Dalal, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sukhinder Singh, Adv. Mr. Deepkaran Dalal, AOR Mr. Sanjeev Singh, Adv. Ms. Mudrakshi, Adv. Mrs. Mudrakshi, Adv. Ms. Sandipa Bhattacharjee, Adv. Mr. Sudhansu Palo, AOR Ms. Anshita Argal, Adv. Mr. Taran Kapoor, Adv. Dr. Joginder Singh Berwal, Adv. Mr. Ritin Rai, Sr. Adv. Mr. Manu Beri, Adv. Mr. Prateek Kasliwal, Adv. Mrs. V. D. Khanna, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aakash Vashishtha, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Jain, Adv. Ms. Varnali Purohit, Adv. Mrs. V. D. Khanna, AOR Mr. Rajesh Kumar Gautam, AOR Mr. Anant Gautam, Adv. Mr. Deepanjal Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Likivi Jakhalu, Adv. Mr. Kushagra Nilesh Sahay, Adv. Ms. Usha Singh, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Mittal, AOR Mr. Nishant Kumar, AOR Mr. Anmol Chandan, Adv. Mr. Anmol. Chandan, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Prakash Pathak, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Dutt, Adv. Mr. Kuber Dewan, Adv. Ms. Neeharika Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Neeharika Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Kaustubh Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Kaushtubh Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Raghav Dutt, Adv. Ms. B. Vijayalakshmi Menon, AOR Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi, AOR Mr. S.k. Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Rishabh Jain, Adv. Mr. Bhushan, Adv. Mr. C. George Thomas, AOR Mr. Vikramaditya Singh, AOR Mr. Vijay Kaundal, Adv. Mr. Nitish Kant Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sajal Singhai, Adv. Mr. Yashika Gupta, Adv. Mr. Ashesh Lal, Adv. Ms. Rachna Lal, Adv. Mr. Kamakhya Srivastava, Adv. Ms. Susmita Lal, AOR Mr. Ashish Rana, AOR Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, AOR Mr. Vishal, Adv. Mr. Kumar Amartya, Adv. Mr. Kuamr Amartya, Adv. Mr. Amit Trivedi, Adv. Mrs. Subhadra Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Subhadra Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Pallav Saxena, Adv. Mr. Anoop Prakash Awasthi, AOR Mr. Nipun Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shubham Dubey, Adv. Ms. Shruti Vaibhav, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Nausheen Samar, Adv. Ms. Akriti Singh, Adv. Mr. Shruti, Adv. Ms. Shruti, Adv. Mr. Krishan Kumar, AOR Mr. Seemant K Garg, Adv. Mr. Nitin Pal, Adv. Mr. O. P. Gaggar, AOR Mr. Sachindra Karn, Adv. Ms. Ritika Gambhir Kohli, AOR Mr. Kartik Nayar, Adv. Mr. Krish Kalra, Adv. Ms. Kritika Khurana, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mudgil, Adv. Mr. Kushank Garg, Adv. Mr. Tishampati Sen, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Nair, Adv. Ms. Riddhi Sancheti, AOR Mr. Anurag Anand, Adv. Ms. Gitika Makhija, Adv. Mr. Mukul Kulhari, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Mr. Devesh Dubey, Adv. Ms. Divya Singh Pundir, Adv. Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv. Ms. Mahima Kapur, Adv. M/s Ravi Chandra Prakash & Co., AOR. Axess Legal Corp, AOR Mr. Gaurav Malhotra, Adv. Mr. Ankit Singh Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Mishra, Adv. Ms. Abiha Zaidi, AOR Ms. Khushi Gupta, Adv. Ms. Suriti Chowdhary, Adv. Mr. Anuj Manoj Bhave, Adv. Mr. Pritam Raman Giriya, Adv. Mr. Manish Verma, Adv. Mr. Faizan Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Sadhna, Adv. Dr. Sujan Singh, Adv. Ms. Kanchan, Adv. Mr. Suresh Chandra Tripathy, AOR Mr. Sunil Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Hitesh Singh, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Munjal, Adv. Mr. Ritin Rai, Sr. Adv. Mr. Manu Beri, Adv. Mr. Prateek Kasliwal, Adv. Mrs. V. D. Khanna, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aakash Vashishtha, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Jain, Adv. Ms. Varnali Purohit, Adv. Mrs. V. D. Khanna, AOR Ms. S Janani, Sr. Adv. Mr. Deepak Goel, AOR Mr. K K Mishra, Adv. Mr. Sahil Nagpal, Adv. Ms. Alka Goyal, Adv. M/S. Lambat & Legiteam, AOR Mr. Kishor Lambat, Adv. Mr. Digant Mishra, Adv. Ms. Kashmira Lambat, Adv. Ms. Suja Joshi, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Deshwal, Adv. Mr. Kamal Mohan Gupta, AOR Mr. Amber Shehbaz Ansari, Adv. Mr. Gorakh Nath Yadav, Adv. Mr. Umang Tripathi, Adv. Mrs. Mehraj Hakim Ali, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Goel, AOR Mr. Kunal Malik, AOR Mr. Deepak Rikhari, Adv. Mr. Sunando Raha, Adv. Mr. Manish Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Abhishek, AOR Mr. Kailash Prashad Pandey, AOR Ms. Sunieta Ojha, AOR Ms. Talish Ray, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Kumar Panday, Adv. Mr. Milind Garg, Adv. Ms. Nikita Garg, Adv. Mr. Yaksh Garg, Adv. Ms. Atulika Ghawana, Adv. Mr. Suvidutt M.s., AOR Mr. Harshit Goyal, Adv. Mr. Devansh Srivastava, AOR Mr. Mareesh Pravir Sahay, AOR Dr. Sushil Balwada, AOR