Uttarakhand: High Court defers hearing of rebel MLAs' plea to April 11
It is for the second time that the hearing has been put off by the single bench of the high court which had earlier posted the matter for hearing today.
Six of the nine rebel Congress MLAs had moved the high court on March 30 challenging their disqualification as members of the House. They said the Speaker's action came after imposition of president's rule in the state which had put the state Assembly under suspended animation.
The Speaker had disqualified nine Congress MLAs under the anti-defection law hours after imposition of President's rule in the state on March 27,a day before the state government was scheduled to go for a floor test in the state assembly.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K M Joseph on March 30 stayed till April 7 the floor test in the Assembly and posted for final hearing onApril 6 the writ petition filed by ousted Chief Minister Harish Rawat challenging the imposition of President's Rule in the state.
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