Defending itself against allegations of trespassing the parliamentary and executive functions, the Supreme Court responds back
The Supreme Court on Monday made an apparent reference to the controversial allegations by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and some BJP leaders. These allegations were about its Tamil Nadu judgment and they said that the top court has been “alleged to have encroached upon parliamentary and executive functions”.
“As it is, we are alleged to have encroached upon parliamentary and executive functions,” the SC said while hearing a plea seeking President’s rule in West Bengal over recent violence.
Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, earlier in the day, mentioned a plea seeking the imposition of President’s rule in Bengal due to recent violence in Murshidabad and other places, leading to deaths and injuries.
“I want to bring to light the latest instances of violence that have occurred in the state,” Jain told SC in the plea.
Justice BR Gavai, who is going to take over as the Chief Justice of India the following month, said, “You want us to issue mandamus?” And he then said the above statement.
The apex court’s remarks came days after VP Dhankhar went all out against the judiciary over a recent SC landmark judgment which set a deadline for the President of India and Governors of states to give assent to a Bill passed by the Parliament or Assemblies twice within 3 months.
On April 17 he said, “There is a directive to the President by a recent judgment. Where are we heading? What is happening in the country? We have to be extremely sensitive. It is not a question of someone filing a review or not. We never bargained for democracy on this day. The President is called upon to decide in a time-bound manner, and if not, it becomes law. So we have judges who will legislate, who will perform executive functions, who will act as super-parliament, and absolutely have no accountability because the law of the land does not apply to them.”
Nishikant Dubey said “The Supreme Court is going beyond its limits. If one has to go to the Supreme Court for everything, then Parliament and State Assembly should be shut,” in controversial remarks, which were also rejected by his party. The BJP distanced itself from his remarks as they stated that those were his “personal opinions”.
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