Recently, the Supreme Court questions why should every dispute between the Delhi government and the Lieutenant Governor come to the top court? The court asked the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) to approach the High Court with its complaint.

DCPCR had approached the Supreme Court over the alleged withholding of its funds.

A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said what is happening is that every dispute between the Delhi government and the Lieutenant Governor is coming in the form of a petition under Article 226. Article 226 of the Constitution deals with the power of the High Court to issue certain writs.

The Supreme Court on Thursday considered the Delhi government's plea challenging LG VK Saxena's decision to terminate the services of all civil defense volunteers working as marshals in DTC buses. The bench also includes Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Mishra.

The top court asked senior advocate Gopal Shankaranarayanan, appearing for DCPCR, to approach the Delhi High Court.

''Why should we consider a petition under Article 32 here?''

Sankaranarayanan said the petition filed by the commission is a little different from other disputes that have come up in the apex court so far between the Delhi government and the LG. He said the Commission's money has been stopped in this case.

The CJI told him that the apex court had considered petitions related to broader constitutional issues. Now go to the High Court. Sankaranarayanan, while presenting his argument, said that the funds of the Commission cannot be stopped. He said, How can the 60 lakh children of the state be told that not even a single penny will come to the Commission?

On this, the bench told him that there is a High Court for this. Why are you putting pressure on the Delhi High Court?

The CJI said that the matter between the Delhi government and the Lieutenant Governor reaches here every two days. Just the Marshall Plan stopped, and we got a petition under (Article) 32.