New Delhi, Oct. 5 -- The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre and sought a detailed affidavit on the proposed relocation of the 135-year-old Central Secretariat Library (CSL), which currently operates from Shastri Bhawan in the national capital and houses more than 8.5 lakh books and other documents.

A bench of Justices PV Sanjay Kumar and Sanjeev Sachdeva directed the Centre to file the affidavit within three weeks, setting out complete details of the space proposed to be allotted to the library, along with its actual layout plan.

The bench also sought clarification on whether the proposed premises would be sufficient to accommodate not only the books currently housed at Shastri Bhawan but also the collection kept at the...