The Supreme Court of India (SCI)on Friday Dec 02,2016 asked the Centre to spell out
measures taken to ease the sufferings and inconvenience of people in
rural areas, who are mostly dependent on co-operative banks,
post-demonetisation.
A bench of Chief Justice T S
Thakur and Justice D Y Chandrachud, while hearing a batch of pleas
challenging various aspects of demonetisation, said all the parties
should sit together and prepare a list of categories of cases which
could be referred to high courts and those that could be heard by the SCI
Attorney-General Mukul Rohatgi,
appearing for the Centre, said the government is aware of the situation
in co-operative banks, which lack the proper infrastructure and
mechanism as compared to scheduled banks.
“Entire
chapter in the additional affidavit filed by the Centre is dedicated to
the issue of co-operative banks. It is not that we are not aware of the
situation but these (the co-operative banks) lack proper facilities,
mechanism and proper infrastructure as compared to scheduled banks,” he
said.
He said the government has deliberately kept
co-operative banks out of the drive as these did not have the expertise
to detect fake currency.
Rohatgi said, “Several
cases are filed each passing day in various high courts on various
aspects post-demonetisation and it is not possible to deal with cases
simultaneously in Kerala, Kolkata, Jaipur and Mumbai... All these
matters should be clubbed together and be referred to any one high court
or the apex court should hear them.”
Senior
advocate P Chidambaram, appearing for co-operative banks, questioned the
government’s decision, saying that the rural economy is almost
paralysed due to non-inclusion of co-operative banks.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for one of the petitioners,
suggested that they sit together and file the list of categories by
Monday.
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