Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 139 · Decided 14 February 2007
Sri Rajendra Singh Rana and ORS. v. Swami Prasad Maurya and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 139 · [2007] 2 S.C.R. 591
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 765/2007
- Decided
- 14 February 2007
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, H.K. SEMA, AR. LAKSHMANAN, P.K. BALASUBRAMANYAN, D.K. JAIN (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: A B Article 191 read with para 2 of Tenth Schedule-Defection- C Disqualification of MLAs-13 MLAs elected on tickets of the political party whose Chief Minister had submitted resignation of her Cabinet, giving letters of request to Governor to invite leader form Government-Petition before Speaker to disqualify the said 13 MLAs-Later, a request made to Speaker by 37 MLAs, elected on tickets of the same party D to recognize a split in the party-Speaker accepting split without deciding application seeking disqualification-Writ Petition before High
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