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The Supreme Court of India Division Bench of Justice Surya Kant (now CJI), Justice S.V.N. Bhatti and Justice Joymalya Bagchi on 21^st November, ordered that the Registry must refrain from listing any paperbook containing monochrome photographs, requiring instead colour images supported by measurements and a conceptual plan. The Bench clarified that matters will continue to be treated as pending defects until such material is furnished, and that when photographs are uploaded electronically, Advocates-on-Record must also provide physical colour copies. The directions were issued in the context of ensuring complete and proper visual documentation before the matter proceeds.

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The Court directed that “The Registry is directed not to clear any paper-book for listing where the photographs appended are black-and-white.” It further stated that “unless proper coloured photographs, along with distance dimensions and supported by a conceptual plan, are appended, no such material shall be allowed to be placed on record, and the matter will remain in the list of ‘defects not cured’ till further orders.”

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“If the photographs appended with the paper-book are filed through e-mail or e-filed, the learned AORs are directed to simultaneously submit hard copies of the coloured photographs also.”

The matter is posted on 09.01.2026

Advocates Representing the Parties

For the Petitioners: Mr. Shoeb Alam, Sr. Adv.; Mr. M. De Souza, Adv.; Mr. S.S. Rebello, Adv.; Mr. Parijat Kishore, AOR; Mr. Raghav Sharma, Adv.; Ms. Manisha Gupta, Adv.; Ms. Moulishree Pathak, Adv.; Mr. Ujjawal Agrawal, Adv.; Mr. Jaskirat Pal Singh, Adv.

For the Respondents: Mr. Dhruv Mehta, Sr. Adv.; Mr. Ninad Laud, Adv.; Mr. Keith Varghese, Adv.; Mr. Guruprasad Naik, Adv.; Mr. Dcosta Ivo Manuel Simon, AOR; Mr. Abhay Anil Anturkar, Adv.; Mr. Dhruv Tank, Adv.; Ms. Surbhi Kapoor, AOR; Mr. Sarthak Mehrotra, Adv.; Mr. Bhagwant Deshpande, Adv.; Ms. Subhi Pastor, Adv.; Mr. Abhay Singh, AOR.

Case Title: Dinamati Gomes & Anr. v. State of Goa & Ors.
Case Number: Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No.7944/2024
Bench: Justice Surya Kant, (now CJI) Justice S.V.N. Bhatti, Justice Joymalya Bagchi