Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, July 25: The Uddhav Thackeray faction on Monday applied for a stay of the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) proceedings into the identity of the real Shiv Sena.
In their appeal, the Uddhav camp said that the EC cannot determine who the real Shiv Sena is till the issue of the MLAs’ disqualification has been resolved.
“If the ECI is allowed to proceed with the proceedings initiated by it on 22.07.2022, it would not only precipitate issues of great Constitutional import pending before this Court, it would also cause irreparable injury to the Applicant as any proceedings before the ECI relying upon the Petition of persons whose status as legislators is itself in question before this Court will not be just and proper,” the plea said.
“Further such proceedings would also be in teeth of settled law that an inquiry into a matter which is sub-judice before the Court amounts to interference with the judicial proceedings and thus, amounts to contempt of the court as has been held in a number of decisions of this Hon’ble Court and various High Courts,” the plea added.
Furthermore, it claims that the Eknath faction has been engaging in a number of illegal actions that are against the Shiv Sena Constitution.
