New Delhi, May 27 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday referred to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice B. R. Gavai the Karnataka government's application challenging a direction for the issuance of Transferable Development Rights (TDR) certificates to the heirs of the erstwhile Mysuru royal family.
CJI Gavai would now study the matter and could give appropriate orders on the constitution of a larger bench to hear the matter.
The direction for placing the matter before the CJI came from a bench comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice Dipankar Datta, which expressed reservations about sitting in appeal over an order passed by a coordinate bench of the Supreme Court.
The matter arose out of a May 22 order passed by a bench of Justices M. ...