NEW DELHI, Jan. 9 -- Six years after the notification of the Central Government demonetising Rs.500 and Rs.1000 notes, a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice S. Abdul Nazeer by a majority of 4:1 has put its seal on the government action. The Bench gave the order on a clutch of petitions challenging the November 8, 2016 notification.

But in an indictment of the executive (the Central Government), in her dissenting order, Justice B.V. Nagarathna held that the objective of the Union Government may have been sound but the manner in which the set objectives were achieved and the procedure followed were not "in accordance with law."

Justice Nagarathna said, "I am of the considered view that the impugned notific...