The Supreme Court will today hear the plea filed by expelled Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra in opposition to her expulsion from the Lok Sabha.
Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud on Wednesday agreed to look into the pressing itemizing of a plea filed by TMC chief Mahua Moitra.
“Please send an email. I would look at it right away,” CJI Chandrachud instructed senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who appeared on Moitra’s behalf and made a mentioning searching for instructions for pressing itemizing of the matter.
Earlier within the day, Justice SK Kaul, the senior-most puisne choose of the highest court docket, refused to move any instructions relating to itemizing of the plea and requested Singhvi to point out the matter earlier than the Chief Justice after the Constitution Bench listening to is over.
Moitra has moved the highest court docket below Article 32 of the Constitution challenging her expulsion from the Lower House of Parliament on December 8.
In her plea, the MP from West Bengal’s Krishnanagar parliamentary constituency has referred to as the choice of her expulsion as “unfair, unjust and arbitrary”.
The motion in opposition to her was taken following the Ethics Committee probe on ‘money for Parliament questions’ cost.
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