A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will continue hearing today the cases related to rift in Shiv Sena.A bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud will hear the matter. Justices MR Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and PS Narasimha are the other members of the bench.The bench started hearing the matter on merits from February 21. On February 16, it had decided to defer a decision on the...
A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will continue hearing today the cases related to rift in Shiv Sena.
A bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud will hear the matter. Justices MR Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and PS Narasimha are the other members of the bench.
The bench started hearing the matter on merits from February 21. On February 16, it had decided to defer a decision on the preliminary issue of larger bench reference by choosing to determine it along with the merits of the case.
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal completed his submissions for the Uddhav side over three days. Senior Advocate Dr.Abhishek Manu Singhvi commenced his arguments for Uddhav side on February 23. Senior Advocates Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Mahesh Jethmalani and Maninder Singh have completed their arguments on behalf of the Shinde side.
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2023-03-15 05:39:02
15 March 2023 5:07 PM IST
The hearing concludes for the day.
15 March 2023 5:06 PM IST
Sibal: There may be no dispute at all. What's the procedure? Go to the ECI. Can the procedure ever be to topple the government?
15 March 2023 5:06 PM IST
Sibal: It is correct that this can happen but what is to be done?
15 March 2023 5:05 PM IST
Justice Narasimha: But let's say the speaker- when this is placed before him, would he also take into account or merely adjourned the case and ask them to go back to ECI?
15 March 2023 5:05 PM IST
Justice Narasimha: What has come out is that 34 have come to this side, this doesn't definitely reflect what happened outside.
15 March 2023 5:05 PM IST
Justice Narasimha: The difficulty arises in the emerging situation- suddenly during the process of existence of legislative assembly, there is this kind of dissent.
15 March 2023 5:04 PM IST
Sibal: I will assume that, against me. That can happen in any situation. That is why the whole purpose of constitution only recognising political parties.
15 March 2023 5:04 PM IST
CJI DY Chandrachud: Mr Solicitor, towards the latter part, he said that they said in their letter that we wanted to withdraw support from the MVA.
15 March 2023 5:04 PM IST
Sibal: He cannot recognise.
15 March 2023 5:04 PM IST
Sibal: If he is the Shivsena, where is the loss of confidence? There is no loss of confidence then. What he's doing is, he's recognising 34 people to be a faction and then on that basis he's saying there should be trust vote
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