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The Supreme Court volition connected November 17 perceive a petition seeking contempt proceedings against the Telangana Speaker for allegedly not complying with its absorption to determine disqualification pleas against 10 BRS MLAs who defected to the ruling Congress.
On July 31, a apical tribunal Bench headed by Chief Justice B. R. Gavai directed the Assembly Speaker to determine successful 3 months the substance of the disqualification of the 10 Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLAs.
On Monday (November 10, 2025), a lawyer mentioned the contempt petition for urgent hearing, saying the talker had not acted wrong the three-month deadline.
“List it adjacent Monday,” CJI Gavai said.
Expressing interest implicit the delay, the counsel said the respondents were “dragging the proceedings till the extremity of the period for evident reasons”, an evident notation to CJI Gavai’s status connected November 23.
“The Supreme Court volition not adjacent aft the 24th of November,” the CJI said.
The counsel representing the petitioners besides submitted that nary proceedings had been conducted since the court’s July 31 order.
“The MLAs are inactive continuing. Your lordships had held that if immoderate MLA was trying to protract the proceedings, an adverse inference would beryllium drawn. Two petitions are pending. The Speaker has not touched them. Others are successful the grounds stage,” the counsel said.
The contempt plea stems from the apex court’s July 31 judgment, delivered by a Bench of the CJI and Justice A.G. Masih, successful a batch of writ petitions filed by BRS leaders K.T. Rama Rao, Padi Kaushik Reddy, and K.O. Vivekanand.
The apical tribunal reiterated that the talker acts arsenic a tribunal portion deciding disqualification pleas nether Tenth Schedule of the Constitution and consequently does not bask “constitutional immunity”.
The Tenth Schedule deals with provisions connected disqualification connected the grounds of defection.
“The precise instauration of our ideology is shaken erstwhile elected representatives are allowed to defect and yet proceed successful bureau without timely adjudication. Parliament had trusted the precocious bureau of the Speaker to enactment expeditiously. That trust, successful galore cases, has not been honoured,” the Bench had said.
