The Supreme Court on Monday decided to go ahead with hearing a suit filed by the State of Kerala against the Centre for “arbitrarily” interfering in its financial affairs, after talks between the two failed to resolve their differences.
Appearing before a Bench headed by Justice Surya Kant, senior advocate Kapil Sibal, for Kerala, informed that the Centre wanted it to withdraw the suit in return for giving ₹11,000 crore.
“We are already entitled to this amount. Our immediate need is for about ₹24,000 crore,” Mr. Sibal argued.
