2016 INSC 0537
                                    SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

                                               Mukesh & Anr.

                                                      Vs.

                                          State for NCT of Delhi

                                      SLP(Crl.)No.3119-3120/2014

                       (Dipak Misra,J., R.Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan,JJ.,)

                                                 18.07.2016

                                                   ORDER

Upon hearing the counsel the Court made the following

1. At the commencement of the hearing, Mr. Raju Ramachandran and Mr. Sanjay R. Hegde,
learned senior counsel who have been appointed as friends of the Court expressed some
reservation regard being had to some kind of communication by two of the petitioners.

2. We can appreciate the anguish expressed by the learned amici curiae. We have clarified
vide our order dated 11.07.2016 about the role ascribed to the amicus curiae by the court. We
repeat at the cost of repetition that this court has complete faith in the intellectual integrity in
the objective assistance of the learned amici curiae who have been appointed by this Court
and, therefore, they should not feel any agony on any score. Their duty is to assist the Court
and we are sure they will do the same. We may hasten to clarify, the learned friends of the
Court shall assist the Court with regard to the case and not with regard to any particular
petitioner.

3. Heard Mr. Manohar Lal Sharma, learned counsel for the petitioners. The matter remains
part heard.

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