Top Law News Judges cannot fix poverty line: Supreme Court September 3, 2012 / September 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a pronouncement of considerable significance that could check the judiciary’s overstepping into legislative and governmental functioning, the Supreme Courthas said the question of fixing the poverty line was in the domain of expert bodies like the Planning Commisionand the judiciary could not engage itself in setting the nation’s economic policies. “This should be left […] Read more ยป Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Gonsalves pleaded the government Judges cannot fix poverty line: Supreme Court Justice Bhandari Justice Dipak Verma Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla Justice T.S. Thakur People's Union for Civil Liberties Planning Commision and the judiciary Reviewing the poverty line senior counsel Colin Gonsalves shrink its monitoring of welfare schemes Shrugging off Gonsalves's plea