SC to listen to Uddhav Thackeray group’s plea towards speaker’s resolution refusing to disqualify MLAs on January 22
The Supreme Court docket on Wednesday deferred to January 22 the listening to on a plea of the Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena towards the Maharashtra Meeting Speaker’s order declaring the Sena bloc led by CM Eknath Shinde as “actual political celebration” after its break up in June 2022.
The plea, which was filed on Monday by the Thackeray faction, was fastened by the apex courtroom registry for listening to by a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud on January 19.
The bench, additionally comprising justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, was urged by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, showing for the Thackeray group, that the listening to be held on Monday subsequent week as a substitute of this Friday. “We are going to hear it on Monday,” the CJI mentioned.
On January 15, the Thackeray faction, by means of lawyer Rohit Sharma, had moved the highest courtroom difficult the January 10 resolution of the speaker declaring the Sena bloc led by Shinde because the “actual political celebration”.
Maharashtra speaker Rahul Narwekar had additionally rejected the Thackeray faction’s plea to disqualify 16 MLAs of the ruling camp, together with Shinde.
