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The Supreme Court eventually allowed the Centres request and asked Tushar Mehta to make suitable arrangements for the next date..
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned a clutch of petitions challenging the extension granted to Enforcement Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra till May 3 on a request of solicitor general Tushar Mehta..
The court was hearing petitions that questioned the three extensions given to Mishra and said that they were bad in law and contrary to a Supreme Court order of September 2021..
On November 15, 2021 Centre brought amendments to the Central Vigilance Commission Act and the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act governing the appointment of heads of ED and CBI that allowed the government to extend tenure of CBI, ED chiefs for a period of three years beyond their two-year tenure by granting extensions of one-year each..
These amendments were challenged in a clutch of petitions before the Supreme Court, filed by Congress leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala, Jaya Thakur, and Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, among others...
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