The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned for November 24 the listening to of petitions difficult the Centre’s 2016 resolution to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes.
A five-judge structure bench headed by Justice SA Nazeer adjourned the matter after Attorney General R Venkataramani sought time to file a complete affidavit within the matter.
Venkataramani apologized to a bench of Justices BR Gavai, AS Bopanna, V Ramasubramaniam and BV Nagarathna for not having the ability to put together a complete affidavit and sought one week’s time.
Senior advocate Shyam Divan, showing for petitioner Vivek Narayan Sharma, submitted that this can be very uncommon to ask for an adjournment from the Constitution Bench.
Senior advocate P Chidambaram, showing for one of many events, stated that it is a shameful scenario. Justice Nagarathna noticed that usually a Constitution Bench doesn’t come up like this and it is vitally shameful.
The high court docket gave the Center every week’s time to file the affidavit.
The bench was listening to 58 petitions difficult the Centre’s resolution to demonetise notes on November 8, 2016.
On December 16, 2016, a bench headed by the then Chief Justice TS Thakur referred the query of validity of the judgment and different associated issues to a bigger five-judge bench for an official announcement.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
