Chennai: The Supreme Court appointed third judge, Justice M. Sathyanarayanan of the Madras High Court, on Thursday upheld the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker’s decision disqualifying 18 AIADMK legislators in 2017. Pronouncing his decision in the split verdict that had previously been delivered, Sathyanarayanan upheld Speaker P. Dhanapal’s disqualification order. With[Read More…]
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Madras High Court to hear 18 disqualified MLAs’ plea
The Madras High court permitted plea of 18 disqualified MLAs, supporting TTV Dhinakaran, for immediate hearing on Wednesday. Tamil Nadu assembly speaker, P Dhanapal had disqualified the MLAs for withdrawing their support to chief minister, Edappadi K Palanisamy on Monday. The MLAs faced action for going against the line of[Read More…]
Two Karnataka journalists sentenced to jail for writing defamatory articles
Two journalists in Karnataka were sentenced to jail on Thursday. Assembly Speaker, KB Koliwad, sentenced them to a year in jail for writing defamatory articles against legislators. Noted scribe, Ravi Belagere, the editor of “Hi Bangalore “, is also one of those sentenced. Both the journalists write for Kannada tabloids.[Read More…]