SHRIMANTH BALASAHEB PATIL vs HON’BLE SPEAKER, KARNATAKA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

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2019 Supreme(SC) 1254

N.V.RAMANA, SANJIV KHANNA, KRISHNA MURARI
SHRIMANTH BALASAHEB PATIL – Appellant
Versus
HON’BLE SPEAKER, KARNATAKA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner(s):Mukul Rohatgi, Diksha Rai, Shubhranshu Padhi, Kush Chaturvedi, Palak Mahajan, Ishan Bisht, Ragini Pandey, Mukul Rohatgi, Shubhranshu Padhi, Sandeep Patil, Kush Chaturvedi, Priyashree, Ashish Yadav, Rakshit Jain, Apoorv Singhal, Aryama Sundaram, Vikram Hegde, Shantanu Lakhotia, Sajan Poovayya, Vikram Hegde, Shantanu Lakhotia, Kashi Vishweshwar, Pratibhanu Kharola, Raksha Agarwal, T. V. Ratnam, Deverajegowda G., Advocates
For the Respondent(s):Tushar Mehta, SG Mishra Saurabh, Kapil Sibal, Devadutt Kamat, Shashikiran Shetty, Sunil Fernandes, Nizam Pasha, Rajesh Inamdar, Javedur Rehman, Priyansha Indra Sharma, Aditya, Ashwin G.Raj, Shreenidhi, Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, Sunil Fernandes, Siddhi P., Priyansha Indra Sharma, Shashi Kiran Shetty, Mahesh Thakur, Sheffali Chaudhary, Anuparna Bordoloi, Mrs. Vipasha Singh, Vybhav Ramesh, Amit Sharma, Dipesh Sinha, Pallavi Barua, Ayiala Imiti, Prateek Kumar, Advocates

JUDGMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction	A
Contentions	B
Issues	C
Maintainability of Writ Petition	D
Rejection of Resignations	E
Disqualification Proceedings After Resignation	F
Validity of Disqualification order	G
Power of the Speaker to direct disqualification till the expiry of the term	H
Reference to Constitution Bench	I
Individual Cases	J
Conclusions	K

N.V. RAMANA, J.

A. INTRODUCTION

1. Reflecting on Indian parliamentary democracy, the words of André Béteille, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, need to be observed:

“In a parliamentary democracy, the obligations of constitutional morality are expected to be equally binding on the government and the opposition. In India, the same political party treats these obligations very differently when it is in office, and when it is out of it. This has contributed greatly to the popular perception of our political system as being amoral… [André Béteille, ‘Constitutional Morality’, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 43 (40) (4th October 2008).]”

Although the framers of the Constitution

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2019 Supreme(SC) 1254

N.V.RAMANA, SANJIV KHANNA, KRISHNA MURARISHRIMANTH BALASAHEB PATIL – AppellantVersusHON’BLE SPEAKER, KARNATAKA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY – Respondent

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N.V.RAMANA, SANJIV KHANNA, KRISHNA MURARI
SHRIMANTH BALASAHEB PATIL – Appellant
Versus
HON’BLE SPEAKER, KARNATAKA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY – Respondent