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Assembly session on, but HC says ‘it’s over’, dismisses BJP MLA’s plea

Sharma had approached the High Court, challenging the resolution, and filed an interim plea to be allowed to attend the special session.

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A day after the special session of the Delhi Legislative Assembly was extended till Monday, the Delhi High Court Saturday dismissed suspended BJP MLA O P Sharma’s plea to be allowed to attend the session by observing that the application was “infructuous” as the session “had already been concluded”.

The bench of Justice Manmohan Singh, in its order, noted that Sharma’s interim plea for stay of the suspension “has become infructuous and thus, the same cannot be granted” as the session was due to conclude on Friday. The bench had reserved its order Friday on the plea filed by Sharma against the Assembly’s order suspending him from attending proceedings for the next two sessions, for allegedly making derogatory comments against AAP MLA Alka Lamba.

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Sharma had approached the High Court, challenging the resolution, and filed an interim plea to be allowed to attend the special session.

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The court also issued notice to the Delhi Assembly, asking it to reply to Sharma’s plea, which has claimed that the suspension orders were “malafide” and violated the conduct of business rules of the House. “Without expressing any opinion about the merits of the case of both parties and the submissions made by the learned senior counsel, even this court felt the issue should have been resolved amicably in the assembly itself,” observed the judge Saturday.

The judge also asked the Assembly to file its written response to Sharma’s plea within six weeks. The court will take up the matter again on July 28.

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