The Supreme Court on Friday said that it will hear Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mahua Moitra, who challenged her expulsion as Lok Sabha MP, plea on January 3 as it has just received the case file.
As soon as the matter was taken up for hearing, a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti told senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, who was appearing for Moitra, that the bench had not gone through the case files and it would like to hear it upon reopening of the court after winter break, which ends on January 3.
Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud on Wednesday agreed to look into the urgent listing of a plea filed by TMC leader Mahua Moitra.
"Please send an email. I would look at it right away," CJI Chandrachud told senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who appeared on Moitra’s behalf and made a mentioning seeking directions for urgent listing of the matter.
Earlier in the day, Justice SK Kaul, the senior-most puisne judge of the top court, refused to pass any directions relating to listing of the plea and asked Singhvi to mention the matter before the Chief Justice after the Constitution Bench hearing is over.
Moitra has moved the top court under Article 32 of the Constitution challenging her expulsion from the Lower House of Parliament on December 8.
In her plea, the MP from West Bengal’s Krishnanagar parliamentary constituency has called the decision of her expulsion as "unfair, unjust and arbitrary".
The action against her was taken following the Ethics Committee probe on 'cash for Parliament questions' charge.
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