<p>The wait for Karnataka's 17 disqualified MLAs for a hearing in the Supreme Court seemed to be getting longer as their writ petitions against the then Speaker's decision, scheduled to come up for consideration on September 11, got deleted.</p>.<p>A bench of Justices N V Ramana and Ajay Rastogi was to take up the batch of petitions, filed last month, on September 11. However, a final update on the Supreme Court's website showed that the batch of petition was removed from the list of cases.</p>.<p>A lawyer connected to the matter said the petitioners may mention the matter again on Wednesday, seeking an urgent listing. The reasons for the deletion of the case was immediately unknown.</p>.<p>It was due to these disqualified MLAs whose rebellion led to the fall of the JDS-Congress government and subsequent installing of BJP in power in Karnataka. All of them were disqualified by then Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar, who also declared them as ineligible to be legislators again for the term of the 15 Karnataka Legislative Assembly.</p>.<p>All 17 disqualified MLAs had filed the writ petitions.</p>.<p>In one-joint petition, Pratap Gouda Patil, B C Patil, A S Hebbar, S T Somashekar, B A Basavaraja and Muniratna contended the Speaker's orders passed on July 28 was “wholly illegal, arbitrary and malafide” as he arbitrary rejected their resignations holding those as not voluntary and genuine.</p>.<p>They contended they had resigned on July 6 but Speaker Kumar went on to disqualify them on the basis of a “wholly misconceived” petition filed by the Congress party on July 10.</p>.<p>Three JDS members A H Vishwanath, K Gopalaiah and K C Narayanagowda also filed their separate writ petition questioning the validity of the Speaker's order to disqualify them.</p>.<p>Similarly other disqualified MLAs – Roshan Baig, Anand Singh, MTB Nagaraj, Dr K Sudhakar, Shrimanth B Patil and R Shankar – also urged the court to quash the orders passed by the Speaker.</p>
<p>The wait for Karnataka's 17 disqualified MLAs for a hearing in the Supreme Court seemed to be getting longer as their writ petitions against the then Speaker's decision, scheduled to come up for consideration on September 11, got deleted.</p>.<p>A bench of Justices N V Ramana and Ajay Rastogi was to take up the batch of petitions, filed last month, on September 11. However, a final update on the Supreme Court's website showed that the batch of petition was removed from the list of cases.</p>.<p>A lawyer connected to the matter said the petitioners may mention the matter again on Wednesday, seeking an urgent listing. The reasons for the deletion of the case was immediately unknown.</p>.<p>It was due to these disqualified MLAs whose rebellion led to the fall of the JDS-Congress government and subsequent installing of BJP in power in Karnataka. All of them were disqualified by then Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar, who also declared them as ineligible to be legislators again for the term of the 15 Karnataka Legislative Assembly.</p>.<p>All 17 disqualified MLAs had filed the writ petitions.</p>.<p>In one-joint petition, Pratap Gouda Patil, B C Patil, A S Hebbar, S T Somashekar, B A Basavaraja and Muniratna contended the Speaker's orders passed on July 28 was “wholly illegal, arbitrary and malafide” as he arbitrary rejected their resignations holding those as not voluntary and genuine.</p>.<p>They contended they had resigned on July 6 but Speaker Kumar went on to disqualify them on the basis of a “wholly misconceived” petition filed by the Congress party on July 10.</p>.<p>Three JDS members A H Vishwanath, K Gopalaiah and K C Narayanagowda also filed their separate writ petition questioning the validity of the Speaker's order to disqualify them.</p>.<p>Similarly other disqualified MLAs – Roshan Baig, Anand Singh, MTB Nagaraj, Dr K Sudhakar, Shrimanth B Patil and R Shankar – also urged the court to quash the orders passed by the Speaker.</p>
