The petition to permit promoters to bid for their own companies was initially filed by the promoters of Bhushan Power and Steel. Later, the Court had merged similar petitions filed by operational creditors of Binani Cement.
Advocate for the petitioner, Dushyant Dave, was not pleased with the further delay and appeared to lash out at Justice Sikri. He stated that there was an impression that the Court does not wish to hear the matter and suggested that the Justices could have recused themselves earlier.
In a huge embarrassment for the ruling Pinarayi Vijayan government in Kerala, a High Court-appointed monitoring committee has slammed Kerala Police for taking unauthorised measures and treating the two woman activists like VIPs to facilitate their entry into the shrine.