Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 38 · Decided 17 January 2013
Speaker, Orissa Legislative Assembly v. Utkal Keshari Parida
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 38 · [2013] 1 S.C.R. 348
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 469/2013
- Decided
- 17 January 2013
- Bench
- ALTAMAS KABIR, JASTI CHELAMESWAR, VIKRAMAJIT SEN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Orissa Legislative Assembly (Disqualification on Ground C of Defection) Rules, 1987: rr. 6(1) and (2) - Petition for disqualification of Members of Legislative Assembly on ground of defection, filed by a person, who was President of State Unit of political party but 0 was not Assembly - Held: Is maintainable - Although, sub-r. (2) of r. 6 provides that a petition in relation to a Member for the purposes of sub-r. (1) may be made in writing to the Speaker by any other Member, such a provision is neither contemplated nor provided for in the Tenth Schedule itself
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