Supreme Court of India on January 21, 2016 rejected an application seeking withdrawal of Special Leave Petition (SLP) concerning the case of three former MLAs of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), who had claimed merger with the BJP.
NCP national president Sharad Pawar sacked former president of NCP Nagaland state unit Er. Semdok, who had filed the SLP in the Supreme Court, after he instructed the Counsel to withdraw the SLP No. 3335/2015 pending in the Supreme Court.
A single-judge bench of Justice R.K. Agarwal has also allowed the application seeking substitution on the ground that the petitioner, who filed the SLP, has left the NCP. It ordered that the petitioner be substituted with the present applicant i.e. Miathou Krose, incumbent president NCP Nagaland.
The court ordered that the name of the SLP petitioner be deleted from the array of parties and in his place the name of present applicant be substituted. It also ordered that amended cause title be filed within four weeks.
The judge also allowed the application filed seeking discharge of advocate-on-record P.V. Yogeshwaran, engaged by Er.T.L.Semdok, saying his name will not show in the cause list. The application for withdrawal of SLP was filed by P.V. Yogeshwaran.