New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today said that it will not go into the correctness of the centre's policy on currency ban as the Supreme Court is already seized of the issue.
A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice V K Rao also refused to issue any direction to the centre to remove the cap on daily withdrawal of money deposited by the public in banks before the banning of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes.
"We would not go into the correctness of the centre's policy on demonetisation as the Supreme Court is already seized of the issue," the bench said.
The court said the people can always withdraw their money, so there is no point of issuing any direction.
It said that the government decision to put a cap on weekly withdrawal of Rs 24,000 has come to an end on November 24 midnight, therefore it does not want to go into the merit of the case which has sought quashing of Clause 2 (VI) of the centre's notification.
"Virtually by way of this writ petition you are challenging the notification on demonetisation, we cannot go into it as the Supreme Court is already looking into it," the bench said, adding that even otherwise "we find that the restriction was till November 24, and the same has expired".
The court's order came on a plea by Ashok Sharma, who, through his counsel A Maitri, had urged for a relief on the ground that the centre's decision to put a cap on weekly withdrawal of Rs 24,000 is "affecting right to livelihood" of the people at large.
Yesterday, the centre had extended till December 15 the facility of using old Rs 500 notes in public utilities and included more services like mobile recharge but stopped the over-the-counter exchange of defunct currencies and use of Rs 1,000 notes.
A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice V K Rao also refused to issue any direction to the centre to remove the cap on daily withdrawal of money deposited by the public in banks before the banning of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes.
"We would not go into the correctness of the centre's policy on demonetisation as the Supreme Court is already seized of the issue," the bench said.
It said that the government decision to put a cap on weekly withdrawal of Rs 24,000 has come to an end on November 24 midnight, therefore it does not want to go into the merit of the case which has sought quashing of Clause 2 (VI) of the centre's notification.
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The court's order came on a plea by Ashok Sharma, who, through his counsel A Maitri, had urged for a relief on the ground that the centre's decision to put a cap on weekly withdrawal of Rs 24,000 is "affecting right to livelihood" of the people at large.
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