NEW DELHI: A two-judge Bench headed by Justice Dhanjay Chandrachud on Friday deferred the hearing on the Goa mining cases to restart the mines lying closed since March 2018 on the Supreme Court decision since it did not receive any nod from the Chief Justice of India to tag the State government’s review petition with these cases.
The hearing is now listed on September 9.
It adjourned the case on a submission by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that the review petition has been mentioned before Chief Justice Sharad Bobde, but no decision has yet come from him to allow it tagged with the other cases. The review petition was filed last November but it had not come on the board so far.
In the last hearing on August 18, State advocate general Devidas Pangam, tried to raise the issue of the review petition, but Justice Chandrachud expressed inability to club it with the cases in hand unless directed by the Chief Justice since no Bench can take up any new matter on its own.
The cases were to come up on Wednesday but Justice K M Joseph, the second judge on the Bench, got tied up in another Bench and hence they were listed on Friday.
