The plea, filed by three advocates and a company secretary, has claimed that the new Rs 50 notes do not bear any identification mark for visually impaired persons to differentiate between denominations.
The Delhi High Court sought the response of the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on a PIL which claimed that visually impaired persons are not being able to differentiate the newly-issued Rs 50 notes from other notes.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said the matter needed urgent attention. It asked the Centre and the RBI to file their replies within two weeks and listed the matter for December 6.
"The issue is of public importance and relates to the rights of the visually impaired persons. It needs an urgent attention of the RBI and Central government. Let it be considered," the court said.
However, the court refused to stay the printing and circulation of the notes as it was sought by the petition.
The plea, filed by three advocates and a company secretary, has claimed that the new Rs 50 notes do not bear any identification mark for visually impaired persons to differentiate between denominations.
They have sought a direction to the RBI to issue the new Rs 50 notes with identification mark for visually impaired persons which should be then approved by the Centre.
The petition by advocate Rohit Dandriyal also sought directions to the authorities to withdraw the Rs 50 notes which do not have any identification marks and stop printing.
It said that according to the RBI, a special feature has been introduced on the left of the watermark window on all notes except the Rs 10 note.This feature is in different shapes for various denominations. For example, a vertical rectangle denotes a Rs 20 note, a square means Rs 50 (in older notes), triangle and circle for Rs 100, a diamond denoted the Rs 1,000 currency which is not a legal tender now, it said.
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