Supreme Court Stays Calcutta High Court Order Disqualifying Mukul Roy As Bengal MLA

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Calcutta High Court verdict from November that disqualified Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy from the West Bengal Assembly for defecting from the Bharatiya Janata Party, reported Bar and Bench.

A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said that the electronic evidence against Roy, which showed him attending a Trinamool Congress press conference, has yet to be proven.

“See there is AI [artificial intelligence] etc, we do not know whose face etc is there,” the court said. “Electronic evidence has to be tested.”