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2019 (3) TMI 50 - HC - Money LaunderingAmendments to the PML Act - amendments were made in the years 2015, 2016 and 2018 and per-se unconstitutional and liable to be set aside - specific query from the Court why the petitioner, being a Parliamentarian is challenging the amendments effected in the years 2015, 2016 and 2018 now in the year 2019 - HELD THAT:- The petitioner herein is a Member of Rajya Sabha. The plea of Mr. Chidambram that the petitioner was not aware that such amendments have been carried out as Money Bills, is no reason to challenge the amendments, at least of the years 2015 and 2016 in the year 2019. In any case, merely because the petitioner came to know recently that such amendments have been carried out as Money Bills, would not justify the delay. Even otherwise, his submission that it was only after the judgment was rendered by the Supreme Court, on a similar issue, did the petitioner thought it fit to challenge the amendments of 2015, 2016 and 2018 by filing this petition, does not answer the submission made by Ms. Acharya that the challenge, apart from being hit by delay and laches, is by a person who has no locus, being not aggrieved by the amendments. Case followed KUSUM INGOTS & ALLOYS LTD. VERSUS UNION OF INDIA [2004 (4) TMI 342 - SUPREME COURT OF INDIA]. We do not think that it is a case where this Court should exercise its extraordinary jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.
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