India’s Supreme Court, the country’s apex court, has directed the central government to present its official stance on cryptocurrency within two weeks.
In a telling move that seeks to end the ambiguity over the legality of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin in India, the government has been ordered to release its report on the cryptocurrency sector by the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court has been filed by cryptocurrency exchanges and industry groups that have challenged a banking blockade enforced by the central bank in April, a crippling policy that has largely the domestic crypto sector.
While the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued against the use of cryptocurrency over the years (from ), they in the country.
As previously, the Reserve Bank of India has shunned responsibility when asked to provide clarity on the legal status of cryptocurrencies. It was a policy matter for the government, the central bank argued.
According to an report on Friday, a legal counsel representing nine cryptocurrency exchanges demanded the government bring some clarity.
“We have got employees. There are jobs,” counsel Nakul Dewan for the sector argued, in the same week wherein the co-founders of India’s largest exchange, Unocoin were for installing a cryptocurrency ATM in the city of Bangalore.
An advocate for the central bank countered by claiming that the authority was ‘only trying to discourage the use of cryptocurrencies,’ insisting it was ‘a policy decision’ for the government.
at the Supreme Court may be nearing its end. After hearing the arguments presented, the Supreme Court’s bench of Justices has demanded the government place its position before the court in two weeks’ time.
Crypto Matter heard today in Court no. 8 as item no. 19.
Counsel for Union of India apprised that Committee is going to come up with a report on Crypto.
Court has directed the Govt. to file Counter Affidavit within 2 weeks.
Matter to be listed after 2 weeks now.
— Crypto Kanoon (@cryptokanoon)
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Published at Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:28:22 +0000
