The Supreme Court today ordered its Secretary General to conduct a fact-finding inquiry into the issue of missing Record of Proceedings/Order Sheets from case paperbooks.

"This has become common everyday that we find all material ROPs from the paperbooks are missing. A trend which is being followed by the Registry. It seems to be a deliberate attempt for some obvious reasons. In the case at hand also, the order dated 8 September 2025 is the one which gives way forward but the same is conspicuously missing", noted a bench of CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul M Pancholi.

The bench directed the Secretary General to hold a fact finding inquiry and submit a report to the CJI on administrative side. The development came while the bench was dealing with a case pertaining to the proposed Goa Tiger Reserve.

The Court was hearing a petition related to the Goa Foundation.

Adv Ayush Kashyap appeared for the State of Goa and the petition of the State of Goa was filed by Misha Rohatgi Mohta AOR

Adv Sivagnanam Karthikeyan appeared for Goa Foundation, and ASG Vikramjeet Banerjee for the MoEF&CC.

Case Title: THE STATE OF GOA THROUGH CHIEF SECRETARY AND ORS. Versus THE GOA FOUNDATION AND ORS., SLP(C) No. 20683/2023