Supreme Court seeks report from registry on petition related to Rs 2000 notes

Supreme Court seeks report from registry on petition related to Rs 2000 notes

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought a report from the Registry on the issue of urgent hearing of a petition challenging the Reserve Bank’s decision to replace Rs 2,000 notes. A vacation bench of Justice Aniruddha Bose and Justice Rajesh Bindal passed the order after petitioner advocate Ashwini Upadhyay requested for an urgent hearing in the matter.

The top court had on June 1 refused to list for urgent hearing Upadhyay’s plea challenging the notifications and said it would not hear such petitions during summer vacations.

Upadhyay said on Wednesday that the issue is very important as Maoists, terrorists and separatists are exchanging money and there are media reports that notes worth Rs 80,000 crore have been exchanged.

The bench said, “We cannot go by the reports in the media. You mention the matter on Friday, meanwhile, let us see the registry report.”