New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, while hearing the Presidential Reference under Article 143 on issues relating to Bills, observed today that it was exercising only its advisory jurisdiction and not sitting in appeal over the recent judgment in the Tamil Nadu Governor case, which had laid down timelines for the President and Governors to act on Bills.
"We will be expressing just a view of law, not on the decision in the Tamil Nadu case," Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai remarked, responding to preliminary objections raised by the States of Kerala and Tamil Nadu regarding the maintainability of the Reference.
Justice Surya Kant added, "We are in advisory jurisdiction, we are not in appellate. Under Article...