Demonetisation: SC hearing on Dec 2

New Delhi:  The  Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear on December 2 various pleas including the transfer petition filed by the Central Government on the demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 currency notes.
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi today told the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Tirath Singh Thakur, that he had placed the affidavit on record in connection with the demonetisation issue.
Earlier on Thursday, the Centre submitted an affidavit on the demonitisation move in the Supreme Court, saying it was an attempt to unearth huge amount of black money stashed over the last seven decades.
Rohtagi said that the Centre had filed a reply in the Supreme Court in compliance with the top court’s earlier order on the issue.
Senior lawyer Kapil Sibal, who appeared for one of the petitioners, told the bench that people were starving in the streets as there was no cash at all.
“The public are suffering a lot every day, no political leader was suffering due to demonetisation,” said another Delhi-based lawyer Manohar Lal Sharma, who had knocked the doors of the Apex Court seeking its intervention and direction to the Central Government on the issue. (PTI)