Supreme Court denies immediate intervention in plea challenging ₹2,000 notes' exchange
The Hindu
The Supreme Court on June 9 refused to entertain immediately a plea by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay challenging the notifications issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and State Bank of India (SBI) permitting the exchange of ₹2,000 currency notes without requirement of any identity proof.
The Supreme Court on June 9 refused to entertain immediately a plea by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay challenging the notifications issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and State Bank of India (SBI) permitting the exchange of ₹2,000 currency notes without requirement of any identity proof.
A Vacation Bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Rajesh Bindal instructed the Registry to refer the case to the Chief Justice of India after the summer vacations for listing.
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Making an urgent mention before the Vacation Bench, Mr. Upadhyay said that ₹2,000 notes worth ₹1.8 lakh crore have already been exchanged in the past 10 days. He said the plea would become infructuous by the time the petition is listed in July, after the re-opening of the apex court.
“The notes exchanged is black money handed over by naxals, criminals, mafia, etc… Everything will be exchanged by July,” Mr. Upadhyay submitted vehemently.
The Vacation Bench pointed out that Mr. Upadhyay had mentioned the petition on an earlier occasion. At the time a coordinate Bench of the apex court had agreed to post the case after the summer vacation.
Mr. Upadhyay said there was no formal order to that extent. However, Justice Bose said the Supreme Court Registry had already marked the case for listing after the vacation, and the Vacation Bench could not do anything in this aspect at this point.
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