The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Central government on a petition seeking immediate implementation of provisions of the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, commonly known as the Women’s Reservation Bill.
The Bench led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna passed the orders on two petitions seeking implementation of the Bill.
directed the Union government to file its reply within six weeks on the matter and listed the case for further hearing in January.
It observed during the hearing that although the courts refrained from giving instructions to the government regarding it’s policies, this was a sensitive matter and hence, the Apex Court would like to know the government’s side also.
The top court of the country said that generally, the process was to start reserving seats where the population was more and then rotate the seats. It was always important to identify which constituencies could be reserved?
However for Women’s Reservation Bill, it needed to be seen how the government would identify and rotate favourable areas.
Appearing for the Central government, Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta apprised the court that the petition filed by Advocate Prashant Bhushan’. had become ineffective because in it he had requested the government to direct the government to bring a bill regarding women’s reservation, but now it has become a law.
Whereas the second petition is of Congress leader Jaya Thakur. Which he has demanded to be implemented in the next elections of 2024 only.
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