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Bombay HC issues notice to AG, gives Centre 6 weeks to reply to PIL against Para 4 of 10th schedule

IndiaTimes Wednesday, 20 December 2023
Bombay high court on Wednesday gave six weeks time to the central government to file its reply to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the validity of para four of the tenth schedule of the Constitution that protects members of the House from disqualification on a merger. The HC bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Arif Doctor issued notice to the Attorney General for India R Venkatramani to appear in the matter, noting that the challenge raised was to the Constitutional provision that dealt with an exception to disqualification of members.
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