NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today expressed displeasure over the Centre not furnishing details sought by it on setting up of special courts to exclusively deal with cases involving politicians, saying the Government is “unprepared”.
“The Government is compelling us to pass certain orders which we do not want to at this stage,” a bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi said, adding “the Union of India is unprepared”.
“The Union of India doesn’t appear to be ready and prepared,” it said.
The bench perused the additional affidavit filed by the government in which it has said that as per the Apex Court’s direction, they had released funds to 11 states to set up 12 such special courts.
Regarding the Apex Court’s query including on the number of cases pending before each of these special courts, the Centre has said the Ministry of Law and Justice was “regularly taking up the matter with the concerned authorities for furnishing the information regarding the cases transferred/disposed/pending in the said court(s)”.
The bench posted the matter for further hearing on September 12. (AGENCIES)
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