The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain the plea of a Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress faction leader seeking direction to the Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly to expeditiously decide the disqualification plea against rebel party MLAs and asked him to approach the high court.
A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi disposed of the plea filed by Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay and asked him to approach the Calcutta High Court. The bench ordered, “It seems to us that the petitioner has to take recourse to the Calcutta High Court. We request the Chief Justice of the high court to list the matter before a division bench for urgent consideration and decide the matter expeditiously. “We request an expeditious disposal. There is already an order of this court concerning West Bengal,” he submitted.
The counsel urged the bench to direct a division bench of the high court to consider the matter so that it does not get caught in another round of intra-court appeals. The counsel said the Calcutta High Court was also on a break till November 11.
It urged the Calcutta High Court chief justice to place the matter before the division bench for hearing. We accordingly dispose of this petition at this stage with liberty to the petitioner to file an appropriate petition before the high court.
