Delhi-Centre row on services: SC to fix timeline on Sept 27

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will fix the timeline for hearing the contentious issue of the scope of powers of the Centre and Delhi government over control of services on September 27A fivejudge Constitution bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud said it will be a green bench and no papers will be used in the proceedingsThe bench also comprising Justices M R Shah Krishna Murari Hima Kohli and P S Narasimha said it would tentatively start the hearing the matter concerning the scope of legislative and executive powers of the Centre and Delhi government by midOctoberThe observation came after lawyers said a Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India U U Lalit will start hearing from September 13 pleas on the validity of the Centres decision to grant 10 per cent reservation to economically weaker sections EWS in admissions and jobs through the 103rd Constitutional Amendment Act 2019The bench was informed that many senior lawyers appearing in the DelhiCentre row case will be arguing in the EWS matter as well and they should therefore be accommodatedAlso Read SC adjourns Hijab pleas hearing till September 7The court said it will list the matter on September 27 for directions on how it will proceed further looking at the stage of hearing in the EWS matterJustice Chandrachud said there will be no use of paper and directed the registry to scan all the relevant material including books case laws and written submissionsThe bench asked advocates Shadan Farasat and Parmesh Mishra appearing for the Delhi government and the Centre respectively to get their compilations ready and submit them to the court master for scanning and circulationOn August 22 the apex court had said a fivejudge Constitution bench headed by Justice Chandrachud has been set up to hear the matter of control of services in DelhiThe matter had been referred to a Constitution bench on May 6The apex court had said the limited issue of control over services was not dealt with by the Constitution bench which elaborately dealt with all other legal questionsThe limited issue that has been referred to this Bench relates to the scope of legislative and executive powers of the Centre and NCT Delhi with respect to the term services The Constitution bench of this court while interpreting Article 239AA3a of the Constitution did not find any occasion to specifically interpret the impact of the wordings of the same with respect to Entry 41 in the State ListWe therefore deem it appropriate to refer to the abovelimited question for an authoritative pronouncement by a Constitution Bench it had saidSub Article 3a of 239AA deals with the lawmaking power of the Delhi Legislative Assembly on matters enumerated in the State List or the Concurrent ListOn February 14 2019 a two judgebench recommended to the chief justice of India that a threejudge bench be set up to finally decide the issue of control of services in the national capital in view of its split verdictThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever