HC’s vote curb on TVK MLA ‘atrocious to say the least’: SC | India News
NEW DELHI: Hours ahead of a crucial floor test for the TVK government in Tamil Nadu, which holds a wafer-thin majority in the Assembly, Vijay’s government has seen a boost in its strength. Supreme Court By allowing its MLA Srinivas Sethupathi to attend the floor test on Wednesday and saying that the Madras High Court’s order banning him from assembly proceedings was “brutal to say the least”.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and Vijay Bishnoi stayed the order. Madras High Court Against Sethupathi who won by one vote from Tirupattur constituency. “This (the High Court’s order) is brutal to say the least. The High Court says the remedy is election petitions and still accepts writ petitions,” the bench observed at the beginning of the hearing.The Supreme Court accepted senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s plea that the court should intervene to allow the MLA to participate in the floor test. He said that strict action should be taken against the High Court for giving such an order.“In the meantime, the effect and operation of the stay order shall remain suspended and further proceedings before the High Court pending the writ petition shall also be stayed,” the bench said. Sethupathi approached the SC through advocate Yash S Vijay and submitted that the High Court had committed a very grave error in law by giving this settled and binding precedent in giving far-reaching and far-reaching directions in a writ petition. “Seventy-five years of constitutional jurisprudence have firmly held that species of legal challenges questioning elections to the State Assembly or Parliament are a special class of disputes which fall within a self-governing complete code under Articles 324 to 329 of the Constitution…,” the petition said.
