Madras High Court today dismissed a petition challenging the suspension of six DMDK legislators by Tamil Nadu Assembly's Privilege Committee.
The First Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Kumar Agrawal and Justice M Sathyanarayanan dismissed the petition and upheld the single judge's order.
Madras High Court had in June dismissed the petitions filed by the MLAs of actor-politician Vijaykant's DMDK, challenging their March 25 suspension from the Assembly for one year for allegedly assaulting a dissident MLA inside the House.
Justice S Rajeswaran had rejected the contention of the MLAs that the Assembly Speaker's order was arbitrary and against natural justice.
There was no merit in the contention of the petitioners V C Chandirakumar (DMDK Whip), K Nallathambi, D Murugesan, S Senthilkumar, B Parthasarathy and K Arulselvan, the judge had said and dismissed their petitions.
The six were suspended on March 25 for allegedly assaulting C Michael Rayappan, one of the four DMDK MLAs to have called on Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in February.
The petitioners contended AIADMK MLAs also were involved in the incident (exchange of blows). But the Privilege Committee functioned arbitrarily and suspended only the DMDK members.
