Kerala Assembly ruckus: Leaders move Supreme Court against HC dismissal of request to withdraw case
The Hindu
The State government, which has also filed an appeal, has argued that the legislators’ actions in 2015 were protected from legal action by parliamentary privilege.
Political leaders accused of creating a joined the State government in the Supreme Court on Tuesday to of a prosecutor’s request to withdraw a case of criminal trespass, mischief and destruction of public property against them. The accused persons include Education Minister V. Sivankutty and other prominent leaders of the ruling Left Democratic Front in the State. They were accused of vandalism on the Legislative Assembly floor during a Budget presentation in 2015. The televised images showed MLAs coming to blows on the House floor and hurl chairs, computers and other public property soon after Finance Minister K.M. Mani began his Budget speech during the United Democratic Front government’s tenure. As soon as the hearing began, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud started saying “this is a case...” only to stop mid-sentence when senior advocate Jaideep Gupta quickly submitted that he represented the accused persons and had successfully filed a separate appeal in the case, which was numbered by the Supreme Court Registry in the course of the morning. Mr. Gupta urged the Bench to tag his appeal with the main one filed by the Kerala government and adjourn the case for a later date. This would give the court the time to read his appeal too.More Related News
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