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As per the order Tuesday, any such appointment will also be subject to the final outcome of petitions which have raised the question and are pending before the apex court.

Justice Gogoi was speaking at the launch of child rights activist and Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s book Every Child Matters.

There have been precedents that show judicial options remain for a death-row convict even after rejection by the President.

The petition filed by Phukan’s son Kaushik seeks direction to the authorities, including Assam government, to produce Phukan before the court.

The Supreme Court rejected Saturday an attempt by the Congress-JD(S) to stall the appointment of K G Bopaiah as pro tem Speaker in Karnataka for B S Yeddyurappa’s floor test, which he did not face.

Challenging the appointment of Bopaiah as pro tem Speaker, the Congress pointed out that he had courted controversy in 2010 when, as Speaker, he disqualified 11 BJP MLAs who had revolted against Yeddyurappa and announced the withdrawal of support.

Karnataka floor test: Doing away with the 15-day period that Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala granted to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa to prove his majority, the Supreme Court Friday directed that he take a floor test in the House at 4 pm Saturday.

“The pro tem Speaker shall conduct the Floor Test on 19.05.2018 at 04.00 PM in order to ascertain the majority,” the order stated and asked the Karnataka DGP to ensure security for the process.

Karnataka floor test: The bench said that going by Sarkaria Commission report, inviting largest party was not “illegal”, but keeping view the circumstance of the case, it thought it fit to order a floor test without delay.

The petitoners questioned Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala’s decision inviting Yeddyurappa to form government saying it was “unconstitutional, arbitrary, illegal, void-ab-initio adn vioative of Article 14 of Constitution...”

Karnataka Election results 2018: The Supreme Court Bench started hearing the case around 2.10 am in court no 6 with Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Sighvi representing the petitioners and Attorney General K K Venugopal appearing for the respondent Union of India and senior advocate Mukul Rohatg appearing for two BJP MLAs.

Noting instances of abuse of the 1989 Act by “vested interests” for political and personal reasons, the top court in its March 20 judgment had laid down stringent safeguards, including provision for anticipatory bail and vetting of complaint to determine if a case was made out before registration of FIR under it

The holding of the floor test would remove all possible ambiguities, and would result in giving the democratic process, the required credibility”. In the 2017 Goa Assembly elections, the BJP had won only 13 of the 40 seats. The Congress emerged as the single largest party with 17 seats.

The states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and Karnataka, who are locked in the Cauvery water sharing dispute, have also been given copies of the scheme to verify if it conforms to the earlier order.

There are some indications that separate files could be sent — one for Justice K M Joseph’s name and the other for more judges. But it remains to be seen what the Centre does when it formally receives the reiteration.

In his concluding remarks, Attorney General K K Venugopal said this is second longest oral hearing in history of the apex court.

“When a judgment is passed, you go to this TV, that TV and discuss court proceedings. Everyday this is happening. Who is spared in this court? Every judge is targeted. You people are destroying this institution. If this institution is destroyed, then you people won’t survive,” Justice Mishra said.

Expressing concern that the marble structure was turning green, the Supreme Court on May 1 asked the Centre and Uttar Pradesh government to think of hiring experts from outside if local experts could not do the job.

The apex court had on February 16 asked the Centre to formulate a scheme to ensure compliance of its judgement on the decades-old Cauvery dispute. It had modified the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) award of 2007 and made it clear that it will not be extending time for this on any ground.