The CJI-led bench termed the non-compliance of its earlier directions as the 'grossest kind of contempt' while issuing notices to the speaker and others on the pleas filed by the BRS leaders

xNew Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued a contempt notice to the Telangana speaker for not complying with its direction to decide disqualification pleas against 10 BRS MLAs, who had defected to the ruling Congress.

On July 31, a top court bench headed by Chief Justice B R Gavai had directed the assembly speaker to decide in three months the matter of the disqualification of the 10 Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLAs. The CJI-led bench termed the non-compliance of its earlier directions as the 'grossest kind of contempt' while issuing notices to the speaker and others on the pleas filed by the

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