HC adjourns Stalin’s plea against trust vote
CHENNAI: Declining to pass any interim order to put on hold or annul the trust vote won by Tamil Nadu chief minister K Palaniswami in the assembly, the Madras high court on Wednesday adjourned till February 27 the case filed by DMK leader M K Stalin.
The court also ordered submission of the video footage of the happenings in the Tamil Nadu assembly on February 18 — the day Palaniswami sought and won the trust vote. A total of 122 MLAs voted in support of Palaniswami, while 11 voted against him.
Stalin, DMK’s working president and leader of Opposition in the assembly, had filed a plea to seek annulment of the trust vote.
Stalin, in his petition, also sought the high court’s directions to assembly Speaker P Dhanapal to hold the trust vote with a secret ballot under a monitoring committee comprising the Governor’s secretary, chief secretary and a senior official from the Election Commission. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court would on Thursday hear the plea of the wife of former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Kalikho Pul, who had committed suicide last year, seeking a CBI probe into his death.
Treating the letter written by Dangwimsai Pul as a petition, a bench of Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and U U Lalit would deal with her plea seeking a probe into his death and the allegations levelled in a purported suicide note of the former CM.
The matter has been listed for hearing before the two- judge bench tomorrow.
Pul had committed suicide on August 9. PTI