The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) on Wednesday said the courts have not been set up to validate "illegal decisions" of the government, and to declare demonetisation as valid was tantamount to defending "economic massacre".

While four judges of the Supreme Court bench held the 2016 demonetisation carried out by the Narendra Modi government to be valid, "the country is proud of Justice (B V) Nagarathna who recorded it bluntly that it was a high-handed move", the editorial in the party's Marathi newspaper 'Saamana' said.