SC refuses to entertain AAP MLA Devender Sehrawat's plea against disqualification

A vacation bench comprising of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and BR Gavai told AAP MLA Devender Sehrawat's counsel that the lawmaker can raise his issues before the Assembly Speaker during the proceedings on the disqualification notice.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea filed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Devender Sherawat challenging the disqualification notice served to him by the Delhi Assembly Secretariat under the anti-defection law.

The vacation bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and BR Gavai told Sehrawat's counsel that the lawmaker can raise his issues before the Assembly Speaker during the proceedings on the disqualification notice.

Thereafter, Sehrawat's counsel withdrew the petition.

Besides Sehrawat, another AAP MLA, Anil Bajpai, has also been served the notice after he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The notice to Sehrawat was served after AAP leader and MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj approached the Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel seeking disqualification of the two MLAs.

The party had moved a plea before the Delhi Assembly Secretariat seeking Sherawat's and Bajpai's disqualification under the anti-defection law.
Shehrawat and Bajpai were on Tuesday given a week's time by the Assembly Speaker to file their replies.

Sherawat is an MLA from Bijwasan Assembly constituency in Delhi.