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SC refuses plea seeking action against Andhra CM for his comments against judge

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a batch of PILs seeking action against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy for his statements against a top court judge and the judiciary. The apex court also said that prayer in a PIL filed by advocate GS Mani seeking direction for removal of the Chief Minister from his office for his remarks was not maintainable.

A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy refused to grant liberty to the petitioners from intervening in one other matter, pending before another bench. That court has to take a decision. We cannot allow hundreds of petitioners to file intervention applications on the same issue.

You pick up something from the newspaper and file whatever you want under Article 32. If we allow one advocate to do so, tomorrow some other advocate will come forward with his intervention application, the bench observed, when one of the petitioners sought liberty to intervene in the matter.