Tuesday, July 15, 2025
spot_img

SC adjourns hearing on rebel Karnataka MLAs plea

Date:

Share post:

spot_imgspot_img

New Delhi : After Supreme Court Justice M.M. Shantanagoudar recused the hearing of rebel Karnataka MLAs plea challenging their disqualification from the state Assembly, the top court on Tuesday adjourned the matter.
When the matter came up for hearing before a three bench of Justices Shantanagoudar, N.V. Ramana and Ajay Rastogi, the former recused to hear the matter.
Justice Shantanagoudar said that his conscience did not allow to hear the case, even as senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi and Kapil Sibal insisted to hear him saying that they don’t have any problem.
Justice Shantanagoudar was earlier a judge in the Karnataka High Court.
The bench thereafter adjourned the matter, which is likely to be heard on September 23.
The court was hearing the legislators’ plea seeking the court’s directions to quash the former Assembly Speaker’s decision to disqualify them from the House.
On July 28, then state Assembly Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar disqualified the 14 rebel MLAs, rejecting the resignations tendered by them.
The MLAs had remained absent from the House on July 23 when former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy put the confidence motion to vote.
The legislators said that the actions of the then Speaker was in gross violation of the orders passed by the apex court, completely illegal and unconstitutional. (IANS)

spot_imgspot_img

Related articles

BSF apprehends smuggler along Indo-Bangla border; seizes silver ornaments worth Rs 16.49 lakh

Kolkata, July 14: The Border Security Force (BSF) has apprehended a smuggler and seized 16.71 kg silver ornaments...

Lok Sabha ushers in AI era; adopts multilingual access, digital attendance, real-time transcriptions

New Delhi, July 14: In a landmark move to modernise parliamentary operations, the Lok Sabha Secretariat has unveiled...

3rd Test: Resilient Jadeja brings up 4th successive fifty, drags match into final session

London, July 14: A resilient Ravindra Jadeja brought up his fourth successive half-century in Tests and dragged the...

Centre to issue new guidelines to promote first-time exporters: Piyush Goyal

New Delhi, July 14: The government would soon come out with more guidelines on how new markets, new...