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Rajasthan crisis live updates: HC verdict on Sachin Pilot, 18 dissident MLAs' plea tomorrow

THE TIMES OF INDIA | Jul 23, 2020, 21:56:55 IST

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Rajasthan crisis live updates: HC verdict on Sachin Pilot, 18 dissident MLAs' plea tomorrow

In a relief for the Sachin Pilot camp, The Supreme Court today said the Rajasthan HC can pass order on rebel MLAs' plea against disqualification notice Stay with TOI for live updates

12:40 (IST) Jul 23

SC says the issue is tricky and needs prolonged hearing. Speaker told the SC that till SC decided the issue he would not proceed with the hearing on disqualification pleas against 19 rebel MLAs, including Sachin Pilot.

12:40 (IST) Jul 23

However, SC says that the HC order will not be implemented as the SC is seized of the question raised by Speaker on the HC jurisdiction to entertain plea against Speaker's notice to rebel Congress MLAs.

12:40 (IST) Jul 23

SC says Rajasthan HC can pass orders on rebel Cong MLAs's plea against disqualification notice from Speaker.

12:11 (IST) Jul 23

Trying to find out whether disqualification process against MLAs was permissible or not: SC on Raj Speaker's plea

12:11 (IST) Jul 23

Issue whether disqualification process against MLAs is permissible or not cannot be taken note of at this stage: Raj Speaker to SC

12:10 (IST) Jul 23

Rajasthan Speaker's petition in SC: Court says: You were only requested by (Rajasthan) HC to wait till July 24

Speaker's counsel Kapil Sibal: Suspend the word 'direction' from the order, court can't do this. SC: So problem is only with the word? Order everywhere says 'request'

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11:52 (IST) Jul 23

SC asks Kapil Sibal, Rajasthan Speaker's counsel, "On what grounds disqualification was sought?"

Sibal tells court, "MLAs didn't attend party meet, they're indulging in anti-party activities. They're in a Haryana hotel, incommunicado & sought floor test against their own party"

11:35 (IST) Jul 23

There can't be a protective order at this stage. When Rajasthan high court extended time to reply on notices and said no directions will be passed, that was a protective order, says Kapil Sibal

11:35 (IST) Jul 23

Rajasthan speaker’s petition in Supreme Court: Kapil Sibal representing speaker says, prior to a decision there can’t be any interference (by the court) unless there is a suspension or disqualification.

11:21 (IST) Jul 23

Meanwhile, Rajasthan court orders investigation against union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and his associates in the alleged Rs 884 Cr 'Sanjivini Credit Cooperative Society' scam.

11:17 (IST) Jul 23

Sibal, appearing for C P Joshi, refers to SC verdict, says courts can't intervene in disqualification process undertaken by speaker

11:12 (IST) Jul 23

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal appearing for Rajasthan Speaker CP Joshi says, the court can’t direct the Speaker to extend the time to file their replies to the anti-defection notices. It’s not in the jurisdiction of the court, Sibal says.

11:09 (IST) Jul 23

Supreme Court starts hearing an appeal filed by Rajasthan Speaker CP Joshi, against the Rajasthan High Court order to defer anti-defection proceedings against former deputy CM Sachin Pilot and 18 breakaway Congress MLAs till July 24.

10:12 (IST) Jul 23

The chances of an urgent hearing on the Speaker's plea during the day diminished as the apex court's registry till 3 pm could not inform lawyer Sunil Fernandes, the counsel for Joshi, about the clearance of the petition for an urgent hearing by a bench.

10:12 (IST) Jul 23

Seeking an interim stay on the high court's July 21 order, the plea said it was the duty of the top court to ensure that all constitutional authorities exercise their jurisdiction within the boundaries and respect their “respective ‘lakshman rekha' as envisaged by the Constitution itself”.

10:12 (IST) Jul 23

Rajasthan assembly speaker C P Joshi on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court against the high court order restraining him till July 24 from conducting disqualification proceedings against 19 dissident Congress MLAs, including sacked deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot, saying the "judiciary was never expected" to intervene in such matters resulting in "constitutional impasse".

22:56 (IST) Jul 22

Gehlot's letter shows his govt is in minority: BJP state chief Poonia

BJP's Rajasthan president Satish Poonia on Wednesday said the language used by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in his letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows that the state government has come in minority. In response to Gehlot's letter, Poonia wrote an 'open letter' addressed to public, saying the Rajasthan chief minister and his party is responsible for "anarchism and instability" prevailing in the state and they are instead blaming BJP "without any reason". "It has become clear from the language of the letter of CM to PM that he has lost the confidence of the MLAs of his party and his government has come in minority," Poonia said.

22:07 (IST) Jul 22

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20:08 (IST) Jul 22

Read: Gehlot writes to PM over bid to 'topple' his govt, names Shekhawat

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20:02 (IST) Jul 22

Read: SC to hear Speaker's plea tomorrow

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