Ambika Roy vs Hon’ble Speaker, West Bengal Legislative Assembly

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2021 Supreme(Cal) 294

RAJESH BINDAL, RAJARSHI BHARADWAJ
Ambika Roy – Appellant
Versus
Hon’ble Speaker, West Bengal Legislative Assembly – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Mr. C.S. Vaidyanathan, Senior Advocate (Through VC), Mr. Billwadal Bhattacharyya, Mr. Kabir Shankar Bose, Mr. Amit Mishra, Mr. Sarthak Raizada, Mr. Akshay Nagranjan, Advocate (Through VC), Ms. Kanika Singhal, Mr. Nitish Raj, Mr. Thajaswani C.B., Mr. Rishav Thakur, Mr. Anish Mukar Mukherjee and Mr. Saket Sharma.
For the Respondents:Mr. Anindya Kumar Mitra, Senior Advocate (Through VC), Mr. Arif Ali, Mr. Prabhat, Srivastava and Mr. Sayantak Das, Mr. Kishore Datta, learned Advocate General, Mr. T.M. Sidiqui and Mr. Debashish Ghosh, Advocates (Through VC).

ORDER :

CONTENTS

Sr. No.	Particulars	Para Nos.	Page No.
1.	Duty of the Court	1-4	2
2.	Arguments on Behalf of the Petitioner	5-9	6
3.	Arguments on Behalf of the Respondent Nos. 1 & 3	10-16	9
4.	Arguments on Behalf of the Respondent No. 2	17-19	13
5.	Reply to the Arguments of the Respondents by the Petitioner	20-24	15
6.	Analysis
	I - Regarding Disqualification Petition	25-28	19
	II - Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, Constitution of Committees and Importance Thereof	29-39	23
	III - Constitutional Convention	40-49	33
	IV - Judicial Review	50-67	41
	V - Quo-Warranto	68-78	60
	VI - Maintainability of PIL	79	69
7.	Directions	80-81	69

DUTY OF THE COURT

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2021 Supreme(Cal) 294

RAJESH BINDAL, RAJARSHI BHARADWAJAmbika Roy – AppellantVersusHon’ble Speaker, West Bengal Legislative Assembly – Respondent

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RAJESH BINDAL, RAJARSHI BHARADWAJ
Ambika Roy – Appellant
Versus
Hon’ble Speaker, West Bengal Legislative Assembly – Respondent