A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice D Y Chandrachud, in Supreme Court on Friday has asked the Centre to explain the measures taken, post-demonetisation to ease the sufferings and inconvenience of people in rural areas, who are mostly dependent on co-operative banks. The bench while hearing a batch of pleas challenging various aspects of demonetisation, said all the parties should sit together and prepare a list of categories of cases which could be referred to high courts and those that could be heard by the apex court.
“Entire chapter in the additional affidavit filed by the Centre is dedicated to the issue of co-operative banks. It is not that we are not aware of the situation but these (the co-operative banks) lack proper facilities, mechanism and proper infrastructure as compared to scheduled banks,” Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the Centre said.
