Oct 9, 2015 Mahveer Singh
As per reports, recently, after hearing Center and other bodies including SEBI and RBI’s plea to soon look for setting up a bigger bench for amending a previous order which restricted the voluntary use ofAadhaar card to PDS and LPG schemes only, the Supreme Court assured them that it will soon give its decision regarding their plea.
SC guarantees decision on Aadhaar row
In the meantime, while when, Mukul Rohatgi, Attorney General was addressing the issue, a bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu said that what will be the come about the other matters, as he has to give extra time to the issue and has to spare nine other judges, so he certainly need some extra time to give a reasonable decision.
On the other hand, during the brief hearing on the issue, Salve recommended to the bench that rather than a nine-judge bench, a bench of five judges can be formed to take a decision on the plea regarding the request seeking modification.Meanwhile, Rohatgi’s appeal for immediate hearing of the application regarding the modification of the previous order was sustained by a battery of senior lawyers, which included K K Venugopal and Harish Salve.
“Please give me time till tomorrow evening. Let me decide it. The question is I have to spare nine judges for this. What will happen to other matters,” a bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu said when Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi mentioned the matter before it.