SC refuses to pass order BSY video plea

NEWDELHI:: The Supreme Court on Tuesday did not pass any orders on the plea of Karnataka Congress to take on record a viral video in which chief minister BS Yediyurappa is purportedly seen speaking about a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) role in the resignation of the 17 rebel legislators from the Congress and JD (S) that led to the fall of the HD Kumaraswamy government in July this year. In the video, Yediyurappa is seen responding to opposition within the party to the BJP giving tickets to the rebel MLAs for the scheduled December 5 bypolls in the assembly constituencies left vacant after they jumped ship.

A bench led by justice NV Ramana told senior counsel Kapil Sibal to wait for the court’s judgement. “Let us deliver the judgement,” the bench told Sibal when the senior counsel urged the bench to accept Karnataka Congress’s plea. SC said since it has already reserved its judgement on the petition filed by the 17 rebel MLAs challenging their disqualification under the antidefection law by the then speaker KR Ramesh, no purpose would be served by entertaining the fresh plea.