New Delhi: Terming it unconstitutional and arbitrary, the Supreme Courtroom on Friday put aside the year-long suspension of 12 BJP MLAs from the Maharashtra Meeting.
A bench headed by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar mentioned the suspension might have solely been for a session of the Home. It additional added that the decision for suspending the 12 BJP MLAs for a 12 months was unlawful and declared it ineffective.
On January 19, the highest court docket reserved the decision on petitions difficult the one-year suspension of the 12 BJP MLAs from the Maharashtra Legislative Meeting for his or her alleged misconduct and misbehaviour within the Home in July, final 12 months.
A battery of senior advocates — Mahesh Jethmalani, Mukul Rohatgi, Neeraj Kishan Kaul, and Siddharth Bhatnagar — argued for the suspended legislators. The senior advocates had been assisted by advocates Siddharth Dharmadhikari and Abhikalp Pratap Singh.
Senior advocate C.A. Sundaram, representing the Maharashtra authorities, argued the act of suspending a member from the Legislative Meeting for one 12 months is just not barred by the Structure. The petitioners’ counsel contended that merely exercising inherent energy can the Home act opposite to the structure, and no preliminary energy can transcend the Structure or basic rights.
The petitioners argued that there was no justification of suspension, which impacts the proper of the constituency. Rohatgi emphasised that the choice of 1-year suspension is grossly irrational, as there was non-compliance with pure justice.
In the course of the listening to, the highest court docket had noticed that the suspension of 12 BJP MLAs from the Maharashtra Meeting in July, for a 12 months, for misbehaving with the presiding officer in chair, each inside and outdoors the Meeting, was “worse than expulsion”.
The suspensions got here after the legislators had misbehaved with the then Speaker-in-Chair, Bhaskar Jadhav for refusing them ample time to talk.
The suspended BJP legislators embody — Ashish Shelar, Girish Mahajan, Atul Bhatkalkar, Jaykumar Rawal, Yogesh Sagar, Narayan Kuch, Abhimanyu Pawar, Sanjay Kute, Ram Satpute, Parag Alvani, Kirtikumar Bhangadiya and Harish Pimpale.
(IANS)
