NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday said that it was for Parliament to legislate and provide a time frame for adjudication of disqualification petitions against legislators by the Speakers, who of late have adopted a partisan approach to keep the decision on such pleas pending for long periods to benefit the ruling dispensation.
Dealing with a PIL, which sought a direction to the Speakers to expeditiously dispose of disqualification petitions and argued that delayed decision negated the mandate of anti-defection provisions of the Constitution, a bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices A S Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy said, How can we make a law providing a time frame for Speakers to decide disqualification petitions? It is a matter for Parliament to deliberate and decides.