New Delhi: The Supreme Court docket on Friday granted 10 extra days to Maharashtra Speaker Rahul Narwekar to resolve the cross-petitions filed by the rival factions of the Shiv Sena searching for disqualification of one another’s MLAs. The court docket had earlier requested the speaker to resolve the disqualification leas by December 31.
On Friday, Solicitor Common Tushar Mehta, representing the speaker, submitted that there are paperwork of over 2 lakh pages to be examined by Narwekar and he is conducting proceedings even in the course of the Winter Session of the Meeting held in Nagpur, which started on December 7 and can go till December 20.
Narwekar’s interim utility
Narwekar, in his interim utility, submitted that after the Winter Session ends on December 20, the Legislature Secretariat has to maneuver from Nagpur to Mumbai takes two to 3 days.
“Therefore, even when the listening to of the disqualification petitions is over on December 22, 2023, the Speaker wouldn’t be capable to peruse the papers and work on the judgments earlier than December 26, 2023.” The plea famous that the speaker has put in “all earnest efforts to abide by the timeline directed by this Apex Court docket”.
On October 30, the Apex court docket refused to grant time past December 31 to the speaker who had filed an affidavit searching for permission until February 29, 2024, to finish the hearings. It had additionally requested the speaker to resolve on the isqualification pleas associated to 2 factions of the Nationalist Congress Get together (NCP) on or earlier than January 31, 2024.