Tenth Schedule Archives

Himachal Pradesh six congress MLAs disqualified by speaker

Himachal Pradesh| Six Congress MLAs who cross voted in BJP’s favour disqualified from Legislative Assembly by Speaker

“Compliance with procedural rules cannot be elevated to the level of a constitutional mandate, so much so that the substantive provision itself is defeated in the process of following the process.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Maharashtra Political Crisis| No stay on floor test, disqualification proceedings to be kept in abeyance till July 11; Read SC’s directions on Eknath Shinde’s plea

Supreme Court: In a significant development in Maharashtra’s political turmoil, the vacation Bench comprising Surya Kant and J.B. Pardiwala, JJ., directed to

Op Eds OP. ED.

Judicial Review over Speaker’s Inaction under the Tenth Schedule – Has the Controversy been Put to Rest

by Akshit Sachdeva*

Case Briefs High Courts

Jhar HC | Whether Speaker has the power to take suo moto cognizance to treat a case under Schedule X of the Constitution; HC enumerates

Jharkhand High Court: A Division Bench of Dr Ravi Ranjan, CJ. and Sujit Narayan Prasad, J., allowing the present petition, discussed the