Authority: Supreme Court of India

Order Date: 22-09-2026

Case Overview

  • Civil Appeal No.: 11802/2025
  • Parties: Appellant – Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA); Respondent – Delhi International Airport Ltd. & Ors.
  • Nature of Proceedings: Multiple applications for exemption from filing copies of impugned judgments, stay applications, ex‑parte stays, and permission to file lengthy lists of dates across several related civil appeals and CAs (e.g., C.A. No. 11308/2025, C.A. No. 13556/2025, C.A. No. 14577/2025, C.A. No. 14576/2025, Diary No. 69586/2025, C.A. No. 320/2026, Diary No. 72005/2025, Civil Appeal No. 15174/2025, C.A. No. 58/2026, C.A. No. 117/2026, C.A. No. 1628/2026, C.A. No. 3791/2026, C.A. No. 3792/2026, C.A. No. 3123/2026).
  • Applications Filed: IA No. 230689/2025 (exemption), IA No. 324710/2025 (intervention), IA No. 230687/2025 (stay), IA No. 216598/2025 (stay), IA No. 272520/2025 (stay), IA No. 306996/2025 (ex‑parte stay), IA No. 306994/2025 (exemption), IA No. 306517/2025 (exemption), IA No. 306515/2025 (stay), IA No. 325163/2025 (condonation of delay), IA No. 325161/2025 (exemption), IA No. 325158/2025 (permission to file lengthy list), IA No. 325162/2025 (stay), IA No. 198/2026 (exemption), IA No. 201/2026 (stay), IA No. 337937/2025 (ex‑parte stay), IA No. 337940/2025 (exemption), IA No. 337938/2025 (permission to file appeal), IA No. 336919/2025 (exemption), IA No. 336918/2025 (stay), IA No. 3417/2026 (ex‑parte stay), IA No. 3418/2026 (exemption), IA No. 6883/2026 (ex‑parte stay), IA No. 6885/2026 (exemption), IA No. 20639/2026 (ex‑parte stay), IA No. 20640/2026 (exemption), IA No. 46229/2026 (stay), IA No. 42872/2026 (ex‑parte stay), IA No. 42873/2026 (exemption), IA No. 41345/2026 (grant of interim relief).
  • Counsel for Appellant: Senior Advocate Pragyan Pradip Sharma, Ritesh Kumar (AOR), Poonam Verma, Dheerendra Singh Bisht, Sakshi Kapoor, Palash Moolchandani, Piyush Tiwari, Hardik Jain, Tushar Mehta (Solicitor General), K M Nataraj (A.S.G.), Sudarshan Lamba (AOR), Mayank Pandey, Bhuvan Kapoor, Anuj Srinivasan Udupa, Rajat Nair, Raman Yadav, Nikilesh Ramachandran (AOR), Neelam Rathore (AOR), Umang Saini, Aditya Krishnan, Shubham Seth, Lovekesh Aggarwal, Sachin Sharma (AOR), N Venkataraman (A.S.G.), R Venkataramani (Attorney General for India), Shweta Bharti (Adv.), Yashodhara Burmon Roy, Darshita Sethia, Kartikay Agarwal, Prakarti Srivastava, Anil Kumar Gulati, Nur Tandon, Yashasvini Chandra, Shalini Prasad, Vipul Shankar Sharma, Anurag Sharma, P Chidambaram, S. Gurukrishna Kumar, Prantar Basu Choudhury, Buddy Ranganadhan, Nishtha Kumar, Vishesh Goel, Aruna Nair, Nitin Kala, Kunal Singh, Mrinal Ojha, Azeem Samuel, Tanmay Jain, Shrom Sethi, Shreya Kasera, Debarshi Dutta, Sahil Tagotra (AOR), Sukanya Lal (AOR), K.P.S. Kohli, Avshreya Pratap Singh Rudy, Kartik Mittal, Naveen Kapoor, Vipul Shankar Sharma, Anurag Sharma, Ankur Sood (AOR), Romila Mandal (AOR), Prajwal Suman, Dhaman Trivedi, Dr. Anand Kumar, Dr. Shreya Sharma, Naveen Kapoor, etc.
  • Counsel for Respondent: Anshuman Srivastava (AOR), Dr. A.M. Singhvi (Sr. Adv.), Parag P. Tripathi (Sr. Adv.), Sajan Poovayya (Adv., Sr. Adv.), Rishi Agrawala, Mahesh Agarwal, Milanka Choudhary, Manu Krishnan, Aanchal Mullick, Naina Dubey, Madhav Sharma, Ravneet Singh, Anwesha Padhi, Chanan Parwani, Raghav Tiwari, Aparajito Sen, Amrita Narayan, Naman Agarwal, Hemant Sahai, Kopal Tewary, E. C. Agrawala (AOR), Palash Maheshwari, Sindura N. Swamy, Sachin Sharma (AOR), Raj Bahadur Yadav (AOR), Sahil Tagotra (AOR), Sudarshan Lamba (AOR), Nikilesh Ramachandran (AOR), Neelam Rathore (Adv.), Umang Saini, Shubham Seth, Aditya Krishnan, Lovekesh Aggarwal, Sridevi Dumpa, Poonam Kalia, Ranjit Singh Walia, Renuka Singh, Raj Bhushan, Vatsalya Vigya (AOR), Vaishnavi Jha, Shikhar Tandon, A.r. Takkar (Sr. Adv.), Shriya Takkar, Manan Takkar, A. Venayagam Balan (AOR), Tarun Khurana, Amarjeet Kumar, Abhijeet Deshmukh, Snigdha Singh, Meenakshi Ogra, Santhanalakshmi, Ritesh Kumar (AOR), Sajan Poovayya (Sr. Adv.), Mohit D. Ram (AOR), Nayan Gupta, Raghav Tiwari, Madhav Sharma, Palash Maheshwari, Shaurya Kapoor, Mahesh Agarwal, Manu Krishnan, Aanchal Mullick, Anwesha Padhi, Naman Agarwal, E. C. Agrawala (AOR), Karan Lahiri, Abhikalp Pratap Singh (AOR), Kartikey, Shubhangi Agarwal, Siya Singh, Siddharth Garg, Charudatta Vijayrao Mahindrakar (AOR).
  • Bench: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Aravind Kumar and Hon'ble Mr. Justice Vipul M. Pancholi.

Final Outcome

  • The Court directed that all the listed matters be scheduled for hearing on 23 September 2026.

Topics: Airport Regulation, Stay Applications, Supreme Court Proceedings