Appearance
Advocate Karuna Nundy and Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves led the arguments for the petitioners. They were assisted by advocates Ruchira Goel, Rahul Narayan, Nitish Chaudhary, Ragini Nagpal, Muskan Tibrewala, Utsav Mukherjee, Shashwat Goel, Mukesh Sharma, Raghav Awasthy, Olivia Bang, Sneha Mukherjee, Mugdha and Aimy Shukla.
Senior Advocates Rebecca John and Rajshekhar Rao appeared as amici curiae. They were assisted by advocates Harsh Bora, Praavita Kashyap, Chinmay Kanojia, Pravir Singh Adya R. Luthra, Karthik Sundar, Mansi Sood and Sonal Sarda.
Advocate J Said Deepak along with Amit Lakhani and Ritwik Bisaria intervened for the Men Welfare Trust. Advocate RK Kapoor also intervened for an NGO named Hridey.
The Central government was represented by Solicitor General for India Tushar Mehta, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Chetan Sharma, its standing counsel Monika Arora and Anil Soni, along with advocates Vinay Yadav, Amit Gupta, Akshya Gadeock, Rishav Dubey, Rajat Nair, Sahaj Garg, RV Prabhat, Ruchir Mishra, Sanjiv Kumar Saxena, Mukesh Kumar Tiwari, Ramneek Mishra and Devesh Dubey.
Additional Standing Counsels (ASC) Nandita Rao and Gautam Narayan along with advocate Nikita Pancholi appeared for Delhi Government.
Source: Barandbench
