SC to hear Nagaland MLAs party change case

Kohima:The Supreme Court has fixed February 13 as the date of hearing on the case of former NCP MLAs, Imtilemba Sangtam, Dr T. M. Lotha and Mmhonlumo Kikon, who had claimed merger with the BJP on June 16, 2014.
According to official sources on tuesday as per the notification of the Special Leave Petition (Civil), the hearing would be held at the Supreme Court ‘CAUSELIST in the court of Justice J. Chelameswar and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman.
The case involves the petitioner (NCP) repre-sented by T. L. Semdok Vs Imtilemba Sangtam and Others. Advocate Amit Kumar is to represent the petitioner(s) and Advocate Mohinder Jit Singh for the respondents.
Three BJP legislators, who had claimed merger after causing a split in the Nationalist Congress Party, were disqualified by the Nagaland Assembly Speaker on a complaint from the NCP under the Tenth Schedule of the Consti-tution. The NCP then filed a Special Leave Petition(SLP) against the high court judgment with the Supreme Court. In response the apex court accepted the SLP(C).(UNI)