Daijiworld Media Network - New Delhi
New Delhi, Sep 12: The Supreme Court, on Thursday, September 12, refused to give a specific date to hear the petitions filed by Karnataka’s disqualified MLAs, against the then Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar’s order.
The hearing which was once listed on September 11 got deleted. When senior advocates Rakesh Dwivedi, V Giri and Anupam Lal Das sought a hearing, a bench of Justices N V Ramana, Mohan M Shantanagoudar and Ajay Rastogi questioned, “What is the urgency?”
Without giving a specific date, they said the matter will come up in due course.
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The 17 MLAs who were disqualified had filed writ petitions against the Speaker’s orders passed on July 28.
Disqualified MLAs Pratap Gouda Patil, BC Patil, A S Hebbar, S T Somashekar, B A Basavaraja and Muniratna in their joint petition contended that the Speaker’s orders was “Wholly illegal, arbitrary and malafide.”
Meanwhile, Roshan Baig, Anand Singh, MTB Nagaraj, Dr K Sudhakar, Shrimanth B Patil and R Shankar urged the court to nullify the order passed by the Speaker.
The rebellion of the disqualified MLAs had resulted in the fall of JD(S)-Congress coalition in the state. The Speaker in his order termed the 17 MLAs as ineligible to be legislators again for the term of the 15th Karnataka Legislative Assembly.