Parliament’s job to legislate on deadline for disposal of disqualification applications: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court said that it is the job of the legislature to make a law to fix the time limit for disposal of disqualification applications by the Speakers of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and Vidhan Sabha. Parliament should do this, the court cannot interfere in it.
A bench of CJI NV Ramana, Justice AS Bopanna and Justice Hrishikesh Roy said, how can we make laws? This is a matter of Parliament. The bench was hearing a plea of West Bengal Congress Committee member Ranajit Mukherjee seeking direction to the court to frame guidelines for the Speaker to dispose of the disqualification applications of members within the stipulated time frame. was. Petitioner’s counsel Abhishek Jabraj told the bench, “We want that disqualification applications should be disposed of within a stipulated time frame as it is often seen that Speakers sit on disqualification applications.” On this, the CJI said that we have given our vote in the Karnataka MLAs case. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal had made the same argument then and even then we left the decision to Parliament. The bench asked, have you read that judgment. When the lawyer did not respond, the bench asked him to read the judgment and come. The Supreme Court will now hear the matter after two weeks.
