-Hindustan Times The Centre and the top court have exchanged several sharp comments on the collegium system. The Supreme Court on Thursday yet again pulled up the Centre over delays in judges' appointments as it stressed that the government must follow the collegium system, which is the law of the land. The court asked Attorney General R Venkataramani to advise Union Ministers to exercise control over their public criticism of the collegium...
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SC asks RBI to provide quorum details of its Central Board meeting that recommended demonetisation - Srishti Ojha
-India Today Attorney General of India R Venkataramani informed the Apex court that nothing was being hidden and the information, if asked by the court, would be provided. The Supreme Court on Monday inquired into the number of members present in the RBI’s Central Board meeting that decided to make the recommendation regarding the demonetisation of 500 and 1000 rupee currency notes in 2016. A 5-judge Constitution Bench orally asked counsel for the...
More »Hardships faced can’t be seen as shortfall of demonetisation: Centre to SC -Abraham Thomas
-Hindustan Times The petitioners had questioned whether the Government carried out any study linking demonetisation as an effective tool to achieve the objectives of curbing black money, terror financing or fake currency. Hardships caused due to demonetisation cannot be the basis for faulting the Government’s 2016 notification to ban currency notes of ₹500 and ₹1000, the Centre told the Supreme Court, adding that the cutoff date December 30 fixed by the Centre...
More »What Centre Told Supreme Court On Pleas Challenging Demonetisation
-PTI/ NDTV.com The Centre said judicial review of an economic policy may be restricted to where the court may only determine if there is a rational nexus with the object sought to be achieved through the means. New Delhi: Fake currency, terror financing and black money are three evils and are like 'Jarasandha' (an antagonist in Mahabharat) and should be cut into pieces, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Monday while...
More »Would the government have brushed aside the Reserve Bank of India if it had objected to demonetisation, Supreme Court asks Centre
-The Hindu The question came in response to the Attorney General’s statement that the government and the RBI had ‘acted in consultation’ to notify demonetisation in November 2016 The Supreme Court on Monday asked the government whether it would have brushed aside objections from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had the Central bank opposed the demonetisation policy. The question from the Constitution Bench led by Justice S. Abdul Nazeer came after Attorney...
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