Telangana High Court
The Telangana High Court on Friday said the state Assembly Speaker should take a decision within a “reasonable time” on the disqualification petitions against Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLAs who have joined the ruling Congress. A bench comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice J. Srinivasa Rao set aside the earlier order of a single judge of the High Court who had directed the Assembly Secretary to hear petitions for disqualification of MLAs from BRS: Danam Nagendra, Tellam Venkata Rao and Kadiyam Srihari. You must appear before the Speaker.
The court said: “The Speaker of the Telangana Assembly must decide the disqualification petitions filed by the petitioners within a reasonable time. The apex court said that it is needless to say that while considering the disqualification petitions, the Speaker must The concept of reasonable”. Time must be taken into account taking into account the processing period for disqualification petitions and the mandate of the Assembly.
BRS had filed a petition
The petitioners, BRS MLAs KP ​​Vivekananda and P Kaushik Reddy, and BJP assembly leader Aletti Maheshwar Reddy, had approached the high court seeking directions to the Speaker to decide on the disqualification petitions of the three BRS MLAs, who were presented earlier by the Speaker were filed earlier. On September 9, a single judge of the High Court had directed the Telangana Assembly Secretary to immediately file the disqualification petition before the Assembly Speaker for scheduling hearing within four weeks.
The Assembly secretary had challenged the single judge’s order
The High Court had directed the Registrar to inform the Registrar (Judicial) of the court about the planned programme. It was also ordered that if no information is received from the Secretary, the case will be reopened as ‘suo motu’ and appropriate orders will be passed. Subsequently, the Secretary of the Assembly challenged the order of the single judge. (PTI input-language)
