NRI cancer patient to move SC on demonetisation

New Delhi: A US citizen suffering from cancer is set to approach the Supreme Court on the demonetisation issue.

Harjot Kaur, an NRI having an OCI card, had first moved the Delhi high court seeking relief on the ground that despite the RBI assurance, she was not given any assistance in exchanging her old notes to the tune of Rs 92,000.

Advocates Maldeep Sidhu and Dhruv Grover informed the court that she holds a US passport and lives there. She also owns a property in Delhi for which she frequently visits the capital. "It is pertinent to mention that the petitioner is a cancer patient and undergoing regular treatment in the US.

She was in the US from the date the currency was demonetised until her arrival here on February 4, 2017, as is evident from her passport," her plea added, while seeking relief.

"The government cannot discriminate and treat NRI's differently and more so in case of NRI's holding OCI cards. This treatment is violative of Article 14 of the Constitution," Kaur's plea in HC argued, praying for its intervention and directions to the RBI to exchange her old currency.