"Let this matter be listed for further consideration on November 20," a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir said while making it clear that the procedure requires that various parties have to be given a chance for raising preliminary arguments on maintainability of the issues.
During the preliminary hearing, Sangma will argue to show there was a "cause of action" for filing the petition.
The bench, also comprising justices P Sathasivam, S S Nijjar, J Chelameswar and Ranjan Gogoi took on record the short affidavit filed by Mukherjee, who said the grounds for challenging his election was "ex facie misconceived."
Mukherjee said he had resigned from all posts he held before filing nomination for the post of President and it was "absurd" to allege that his signature was forged in the letter for resigantion from the post of Chairman of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI).
Mukherjee said like any other person he has two or three types of signatures which some times reflect his full name and some other time show as P K Mukherjee.
In his petition, Sangma has said the veteran Congress leader was not eligible for the post as he was holding offices of profit on the date of filing nomination for the President's election.
Sangma has contended that Mukherjee was holding offices of profit as chairman ISI, Kolkata and as also the leader of the Congress Party in Lok Sabha when he had entered the Presidential race.
He had also alleged that Mukherjee's signature was forged on the letter resigning as chairman of the ISI. (MORE)