SC to give opinion on Prez’s reference today

The Supreme Court will on Thursday deliver its advisory opinion ona rare presidential reference that asks whether constitutional courts can prescribe timelines for the President and governors to act on state bills.

- Utkarsh Anand

The opinion comes more than two months after a constitution bench reserved its decision on September II, following a series of hearings that probed the limits of judicial authority when executive inaction risks paralysing democratic processes.