NEW DELHI: Disregarding the Centre's objections, the Supreme Court decided on Friday to set up a five-judge Constitution bench to examine the validity of the government's November 8 decision to scrap Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes and asked authorities to fulfil their commitment to people on withdrawing up to Rs 24,000 each week.Passing the order, a bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud disregarded the Centre's argument that the note ban decision fell within the exclusive domain of the executive and was hence beyond judicial scrutiny.However, the order also marked a big respite for the government as the bench refused to stop or interfere with the implementation of its contentious policy .Besides, it turned down a plea to extend the December 31 deadline for accepting Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes outside RBI, allow cooperative banks to accept deposits in the two high-value notes, and raise the ceiling -Rs 24,000 for a week from banks and Rs 2,500 a day from ATMs -on cash withdrawals.The court heeded the plea of the government and restrained all other courts from entertaining from now on any plea opposing the note ban decision. The CJI-led bench framed nine questions for the Constitution bench which will go into the legality of the demonetisation decision. These include issues like whether the government's decision was a violation of the RBI Act and various Constitutional provisions, whether its implementation suffers from procedural unreasonableness and whether curbs on withdrawal of cash from bank accounts has any legal foundation.The Centre had opposed the plea for the court to examine the Constitutional validity of the decision, with Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi arguing that the matter pertained to monetary and fiscal policy which fell within the domain of the executive.On the issue of allowing district cooperative banks to accept deposits of scrapped notes, the court said the issue was to be adjudicated only by a larger bench.“The decision...to forbid the district cooperative banks from accepting deposits and exchanging demonetised notes may require detailed hearing. It is only upon acceptance of challenge to that decision that the bar placed on the district cooperative banks can be lifted. We are not inclined to suspend that bar as an interim measure,“ the bench said.The court, however, directed the government to issue notification to allow the cooperative banks to deposit with RBI and exchange the scrapped notes they collected from November 11-14.