Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Constitution of India Legislative Assembly Elections |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Act(s) Referred | Constitution of India |
Case(s) Referred | Referred Case 0 Referred Case 1 |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Disposed Off |
Headnote | Constitution of India – Tenth Schedule – Disqualification of a candidate nominated in Legislative Assembly elections on ground of defection – The election for the 11th Manipur Legislative Assembly was conducted in March, 2017 – None of the political parties were able to secure a majority i.e. 31 seats in a Legislative Assembly of 60 seats in order to form the Government – The Congress Party emerged as the single largest party with 28 seats and BJP with 21 seats – The respondent no. 3 contested as a candidate nominated and set up by the Congress party and was duly elected – On 12.03.2017, respondent no. 3 along with various BJP members met the Governor of the State and staked a claim for forming a BJP-led Government – Thereafter, the respondent no. 3 was sworn in as a Minister in BJP-led government – Applications were filed before the Speaker of the legislative Assembly between April and July, 2017 seeking disqualification of the respondent no. 3 under paragraph 2(1)(a) of the Tenth Schedule – No action was taken by the Speaker – Held: It is clear from a reading of the judgment in Rajendra Singh Rana and S.A. Sampath Kumar that a failure to exercise jurisdiction vested in a Speaker cannot be covered by the shield contained in paragraph 6 of the Tenth Schedule, and that when a Speaker refrains from deciding a petition within a reasonable time, there was clearly an error which attracted jurisdiction of the High court in exercise of the power of judicial review – Further, Kihoto Hollohan do not in any manner, interdict judicial review in aid of the Speaker arriving at a prompt decision as to disqualification under the provisions of the Tenth Schedule – The Speaker, in acting as a Tribunal under the Tenth Schedule is bound to decide disqualification petitions within a reasonable period – What is reasonable will depend on the facts of each case, but absent exceptional circumstances for which there is good reason, a period of three months from the date on which the petition is filed is the outer limit within which the disqualification petition filed before the Speaker must be decided if the Constitutional objective of disqualifying persons who have infracted the Tenth Schedule is to be adhered to – The only relief that can be given in these instant appeals is that the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly be directed to decide the disqualification petitions pending before him within a period of four weeks from the date on which this judgment is intimated to him. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice R.F. Nariman |
Neutral Citation | 2020 INSC 65 |
Petitioner | Keisham Meghachandra Singh |
Respondent | The Hon’ble Speaker Manipur Legislative Assembly & Ors. |
SCR | [2020] 2 S.C.R. 132 |
Judgement Date | 2020-01-21 |
Case Number | 547 |
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