The Supreme Court will hear at 2 pm today the Centre’s plea seeking review of its March 20 verdict banning automatic arrest and registration of cases under the SC/ST Act.
The apex court agreed to hear the review petition after Attorney General K K Venugopal referred to large scale violence and loss of lives and property during yesterday’s Bharat Bandh. He sought urgent hearing of the review petition today itself.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra agreed to constitute the original bench of Justices A K Goel and U U Lalit at 2 pm to hear the review plea.
