Centre to Top Court: Pleas seeking new bench to hear anti-terror law 'mischievous'
Srishti Ojha | 29 November 2023 | India Today
Responding to requests made for reconsideration of the bench that will hear the pleas challenging the validity of UAPA provisions, the counsel for the Union of India on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that these were “mischievous prayers”.
The remark was made by Advocate Rajat Nair after the petitioners pointed out that the cases were listed before a different bench earlier, and requested the court to place the matter on the administrative side before the Chief Justice of India (CJI) to consider if the case needs to be transferred to a different bench.
A two-judge bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma was hearing a batch of petitions, including Umar Khalid’s bail plea….