SC refuses stop High Courts listening demonetisation petitions challenging the move to withdraw old bank notes

SC refuses stop High Courts listening demonetisation petitions challenging the move to withdraw old bank notes.

Supreme Court today refused the Central Government plea to stop various High Courts from entertaining  and/or listening pending petitions challenging the move to withdraw old bank notes currency of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000/-.

Supreme Court today, pointed out that the people are suffering due to demonetisation scheme. The Bench headed by Hon’ble Chief Justice remarked that due to the currency crunch,  people are going frantic. The Court also urged Attorney General not to dispute this fact.

As per media reports, the Apex Court even warn of riots due to mismanagement in the Scheme.

The Court refusing to entertain the Central Government’s plea remarked that different petitions filed in High Courts would only go to show what kind of problems people are facing and by stopping them the actual magnitude of the problem could not be known.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal opposing the petition of the Government pleaded that people are having great struggle in getting their legitimately earned money. He also drew the attention of the Hon’ble Court on the high numbers of deaths of the people due to badly managed demonetisation scheme.

The case was ordered to be listed for next hearing on 25-11-2016 when the original PIL challenging the demonetisation is coming up for the hearing.

Meanwhile it is learnt that in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), the Kolkata High Court, today, though refused to interfere in Government’s policy, stated that there had been lack of homework sincerity in implementation of the scheme which has caused public distress.