The Delhi government was informed today by the Supreme Court that their plea challenging the central government’s law establishing the Lieutenant Governor’s superiority over the elected dispensation in managing services in the national capital would be taken into consideration.
Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for the AAP government, urged a bench made up of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra that the matter needed to be heard because the entire administration has come to a standstill.

The Chief Justice stated that he will review the submission and that a nine-judge bench case is currently underway.

Currently, petitions posing a complex legal question—namely, whether private properties can be deemed “material resources of the community” under Article 39(b) of the Constitution, which is a component of the Directive Principles of State Policy—are being heard by the nine-judge bench presided over by the Chief Justice of India.

The top court had previously referred the Delhi government’s appeal against the Center’s May 19, last year ordinance—which removed the city dispensation’s control over services and sparked a new power struggle between the two power centers—to a five-judge Constitution bench.

Later, the ordinance on the subject was superseded by a central law.

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