The Supreme Court on Tuesday once more expressed its displeasure within the progress of the Shiv Sena MLAs’ disqualification petitions and referred to as for expeditious adjudication. The SC had come down laborious on the Maharashtra meeting speaker, saying the proceedings can’t be a “charade” and he can’t “defeat” its orders. An irked CJI had mentioned a call on disqualification pleas has to be taken earlier than the following meeting elections in any other case the entire course of will turn out to be infructuous. The subsequent state meeting polls will doubtless be held round September-October 2024.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Tuesday instructed SC that he would personally have interaction with Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar through the Dussehra trip. The SC has posted a listening to of pleas on Shiv Sena MLAs’ disqualification row for October 30.
Earlier on September 18, the bench had directed the speaker to spell out the timetable for adjudication of the disqualification petitions in opposition to Shinde and Shiv Sena MLAs owing allegiance to him who had tied up with the BJP to kind a brand new authorities in June 2022. The court docket had requested the solicitor basic to apprise the bench of the time schedule to be mounted by the speaker for deciding the pleas for disqualification of 56 MLAs together with lawmakers belonging to the Shinde faction. The Thackeray faction had moved the apex court docket in July searching for course to the state meeting speaker to expeditiously adjudicate the disqualification petitions in a time-bound method.
