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SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO(s). 67 OF 2013

SAMAJ PARIVARTAN SAMUDAYA & ORS. VERSUS STATE OF KARNATAKA & ORS.

Petitioner(s)

Respondent(s)

(With appln(s) for ex-parte stay and office report) Date: 15/02/2013 today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AFTAB ALAM HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI For Petitioner(s) Mr. Prashant Bhushan,Adv. Mr. Ramesh Kr. Mishra, Adv. Mr. Akhil Anand, Adv. Ms. Pyoli, Adv. Mr. Pranav, Adv. This Petition was called on for hearing

For Respondent(s) UPON hearing counsel the Court made the following ORDER Heard Mr. Prashant Bhushan, learned counsel

appearing for the petitioners. Though the issues raised in this petition filed under Article 32 of the Constitution are indeed grave, there is no reason why those issues may not be first raised before the Karnataka High Court.

This Writ Petition is, accordingly, permitted to be withdrawn with liberty to the petitioners to move the Karnataka High Court. In case the petitioners move the Karnataka High Court in a properly constituted petition, the High Court shall examine the matter and pass appropriate orders on it without any undue delay.

|(Neetu Khajuria) |Sr.P.A.

|(Sneh Bala Mehra) |Court Master