On November 25, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a PIL against the two ordinances, which allows the Central government to extend the tenure of heads of CBI and Directorate of Enforcement (ED) for up to five years.Advocate M.L. Sharma, petition-in-person, submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana that ED director Sanjay Kumar Mishra’s tenure has been extended by using powers under one of the ordinances. After briefly hearing Sharma, the bench said: “We will list it”.The plea claimed that the Centre has misused its power under Article 123 of the Constitution, which deals with president’s power to promulgate ordinances during recess of Parliament.On November 14, two ordinances — Central Vigilance Commission (Amendment) Ordinance and Delhi Special Police Establishment (Amendment) Ordinance — which amended Section 25 and Section 4B of the CVC Act 2003 and DSPE Act 1946 respectively were promulgated.
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