Sharad Yadav strikes Supreme Court towards Delhi HC order for vacating authorities bungalow

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Former Union minister Sharad Yadav has moved the Supreme Court difficult an order of the Delhi High Court directing him to vacate inside 15 days a authorities bungalow right here on the bottom that he was disqualified as a Rajya Sabha MP in 2017 and so there will be no justification for retaining it.

The excessive courtroom had on March 15 directed Yadav to “hand over the bungalow at 7, Tuqhlak Road here to the government within 15 days”, saying greater than 4 years have elapsed since he was disqualified as an MP. In his plea earlier than the apex courtroom, Yadav has mentioned he’s residing there for 22 years and the excessive courtroom had handed the order although his problem to his “improper and erroneous disqualification” has not been determined by the courtroom.

“In terms of the impugned order, the high court appears to have revived a disposed of application and passed further orders therein vacating the earlier interim order of the high court dated December 15, 2017 and directed the petitioner. to hand over the possession of his official residence within a period of 15 days, despite the fact that the challenge to the legality of his disqualification from Rajya Sabha is still pending before the high court,” mentioned the plea, filed via advocate Javedur Rahman.

The petition by the 75-year-old Yadav, mentioned his case “deserved sympathetic treatment” on account of his ailing well being. It mentioned he has been hospitalised 13 instances since July 2020 and was final discharged in February.

“As such, the impugned order directing relocation will require exertion, stress, and exposure to general public and place the life of the petitioner in peril,” it mentioned.

The petition mentioned Yadav was disqualified from the Rajya Sabha on December 4, 2017 when it comes to Paragraph 2(1)(a) of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution for purportedly having given up the membership of his social gathering.

He was then an MP of Bihar’s ruling JD(U), which had sought his disqualification for attending an opposition rally in Patna.

The plea which, as an interim aid, has sought a keep on the excessive courtroom order of March 15, mentioned Yadav has challenged the order of disqualification by the use of a writ petition.

“It is submitted that there was no change in circumstances meriting a vacation of the stay order passed on December 15, 2017 by the high court, that too in a disposed of application except the lapse of time, which was either on account of the respondents or the Covid-19 pandemic,” it mentioned.

“After having spent his life in service of the nation, the petitioner is being victimized on account of political vendetta, and is being forced to vacate his residence of 22 years, even though his challenge to his improper and erroneous disqualification from membership of the Rajya Sabha has not been decided by the court of the first instance for no fault his own, despite having voluntarily given up all his other amenities,” it mentioned.

The excessive courtroom had disposed of an utility by the Centre looking for to elevate a keep on the holiday of the federal government bungalow occupied by him within the nationwide capital as he was disqualified as an MP.

“The December 15, 2017 order stands vacated,” the excessive courtroom had mentioned and listed the primary petition for listening to on April 21.

It had mentioned till and except Yadav’s disqualification is put aside, he has no proper to occupy the federal government lodging and added that the availability of perks, together with residential lodging, are supplied to the functionaries of the state to allow them to discharge their duties.

The excessive courtroom had mentioned the perks are conferred to any particular person personally and they aren’t given for all times.

Yadav had approached the excessive courtroom in 2017 difficult his disqualification from Rajya Sabha on a number of grounds, together with that he was not given any probability to current his views by the House chairman earlier than he handed the order.

On the opposite hand, Ram Chandra Prasad Singh, then the chief of the JD(U) in Rajya Sabha, had sought disqualification of Yadav and his colleague Ali Anwar on the bottom that they’d attended a rally of opposition events in violation of the social gathering directives.

Yadav joined fingers with the opposition after the then JD(U) president and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar had dumped the alliance with the RJD and the Congress in and tied up with the BJP in July 2017.

Yadav was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2017 and his time period was to finish in July 2022. Anwar’s time period expired in 2018. Both have been disqualified underneath the Anti-Defection Act.