Decide In "Reasonable Time": Telangana High Court on BRS MLAs' Defection Case

The defections triggered a spat between the parties; in September, after the High Court's single-judge bench order, the BRS' P Kaushik Reddy fired a sexist barb,

Three Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLAs who jumped to the Congress and were served with disqualification notices gained relief Friday after the Telangana High Court stayed a single-judge bench's September order directing the Speaker to settle this issue within four weeks.

A bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice J Sreenivas Rao said no such deadline could be set, but asked Speaker Gaddam Kumar to rule on the matter within "reasonable time".

Danam Nagender, Kadiam Srihari, and TV Rao were elected from the Khairatabad, Ghanpur Station, and Bhadrachalam in the election held in November last year. But by April this year all three joined the ruling Congress without resigning from their respective Assembly seats.