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Padi Kaushik Reddy Vs State of Telangana 2025
August 5 , 2025
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- The Supreme Court ruled the Speaker of the Telangana Assembly does not have constitutional immunity under Articles 122 or 212 when deciding disqualification petitions under the Tenth Schedule.
- Articles 122 and 212 prevent the courts from interfering in Parliament and state legislatures, but do not shield the Speaker in disqualification cases.
- The case concerned 10 MLAs who defected from Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) to the Congress Party after Telangana’s 2023 elections.
- The Disqualification petitions were filed between March and April 2024 under the Tenth Schedule for voluntarily giving up party membership.
- The Tenth Schedule empowers the Speaker to decide disqualification petitions following the Assembly rules.
- The Speaker delayed issuing notices and deciding the petitions for over seven months, prompting the Supreme Court’s intervention.
- The Court directed the Speaker to conclude proceedings within three months and warned of adverse inferences if MLAs delay the process.
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