Will Take A Call On Hearing Money Bill Issue Soon : CJI DY Chandrachud
Live LawChief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Monday agreed to take a call on hearing the "money bill" issue soon. The majority judgment in Aadhaar case by Justice AK Sikri had held that the Aadhaar Bill in its pith and substance would pass the test of being a Money Bill. Justice Chandrachud, in his dissent in the Aadhaar judgment, referred to the word 'only' in Article 110 and said that the pith and substance doctrine which is applicable to legislative entries would not apply when deciding the question whether or not a particular bill is a "Money Bill". In 2019, the lead judgment by the then CJI Ranjan Gogoi in Rojer Mathew vs. South Indian Bank Ltd noted that the majority dictum in Aadhaar judgment did not substantially discuss the effect of the word 'only' in Article 110 and did not examine the repercussions of a finding when some of the provisions of an enactment passed as a "Money Bill" do not conform to Articles 110 to.