Karnataka crisis: Youth Cong leader moves SC seeking to intervene in case filed by rebel MLAs
New Delhi: A Karnataka Youth Congress leader moved the Supreme Court on Friday seeking to intervene in a case filed by 10 rebel Congress and JD(S) MLAs for a direction to the Assembly speaker to accept their resignations.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi was told by the counsel of Anil Chacko Joseph, the Youth Congress leader, that the resignations by the rebel MLAs were nothing but a kind of defection and sought a hearing as an intervenor.
The apex court has listed for hearing on Friday the petition of the 10 rebel MLAs seeking a direction to Karnataka Assembly speaker K R Ramesh Kumar for accepting their resignations.
Chacko, in his application, said that a resignation had the same effect as defecting from a party and that the MLAs were "bought or persuaded to resign by payment of enormous sums of money".
The apex court allowed Chacko to be heard as intervenor in the matter.
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Uttarakhand: Three women killed as vehicle plunges into gorge in Dehradun
Dehradun (PTI): Three women died on Tuesday after their utility vehicle fell into a gorge in the Kalsi tehsil here, police said.
According to the police, the incident occurred at Gangro village, about 55 kilometres from the tehsil headquarters. Five other passengers were injured in the accident.
Police said the eight people were travelling the vehicle at the time of the accident. One woman died on the spot, while two others succumbed to their injuries during treatment at a hospital.
All the victims were local residents, they added.
