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Won't
give directions which may be questioned: Apex court
Monday November 08, 2010 07:28:02 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Supreme Court Monday said that it would refrain from issuing a
direction which may be questioned on the grounds on its (apex
court) authority or jurisdiction.
"Once we issue an order, we will
take it to its logical conclusion. We don't want to be confronted
with grey areas," said the apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H.
Kapadia, Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar.
The court said this when senior counsel P.S. Narasimha asked it to
give directions to Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Mizoram to
issue a notification for adopting the Employment of Manual
Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act,
1993.
"We don't want a situation where we are told that our orders will
not be implemented," Chief Justice Kapadia told the senior
counsel.
"We will enforce our orders once we issue them", the court said.
When Narasimha said that the court had all the powers to issue
such directions, Chief Justice Kapadia asked counsel to show a
judgment of the apex court stating this.
As per the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis, there were
14,479 manual scavengers in Delhi in 2007. The figures stood at
2,734 for Himachal Pradesh. For Sikkim and Mizoram no data was
made available to the court by the petitioner, Safai Karamchari
Andolan.
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