The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought response of the Centre on a PIL challenging the constitutional validity of newly enacted three farm laws on grounds including that Parliament lacked power to make legislation on the subject.
The plea also raised questions over the validity of ‘the Constitution (3rd Amendment Act) of 1954′ which allegedly empowered the Centre to frame the controversial laws on agriculture.
Chief Justice S A Bobde, said it would hear on January 11 all the pleas challenging the new farm laws as also the ones raising issues related to the ongoing farmers’ protest at Delhi borders.
Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian took note of the petition which also contended that the subject ‘agriculture’ has wrongly been put in the concurrent list in the Constitution by Parliament in 1954.
The bench also allowed the lawyer to amend his PIL in which he has also sought quashing of the three laws.
Earlier on November 19, the bench had restored the PIL of Sharma which was dismissed on October 12 and he was asked to approach the High Court instead.
