The apex court stayed the Rajasthan High Court's verdict dismissing the MLA's appeal against the jail term slapped by lower court in a criminal case.
The Indian contingent's Chief Medical Officer Dr Dinshaw Pardiwala described in detail how the unfortunate incident happened to Vinesh before today morning's mandatory weigh-in ahead of her evening's gold medal bout against USA's Sara Ann Hildebrandt.
The six rebel MLAs Rajinder Rana, Sudhir Sharma, Ravi Thakur, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal, Devinder Kumar Bhutto and Chetanya Sharma had approached the Supreme Court by filing a writ petition challenging their disqualification by the Speaker.
A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Dipankar Datta and Prashant Kumar Mishra posted the matter for March 18, as advocate appearing for the petitioner disqualified lawmakers informed the bench that they are led by senior advocate Harish Salve who was unable to join the hearing.
The two factions had filed disqualification petitions against each other.
Dr Cheema said Parliamentary traditions should be maintained at all costs and an impression should not be given that the Opposition is being suppressed in any manner whatsoever.
The Congress on Friday questioned Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from the Lok Sabha, and said that only President has the powers to do so.
After Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha a day after his conviction in Surat court, the Congress on Friday said that it will fight the battle legally and politically.
"We want Roy to get disqualified as soon as possible. We will also mention in the petition to fix the deadline for fast redressal of the issue,” Adhikari said.
The suggestion for devising an independent mechanism to deal with disqualification pleas against lawmakers came in a judgment by which the top court asked the Manipur Assembly Speaker to decide within four weeks the plea of a Congress leader seeking disqualification of BJP lawmaker and Manipur Forest Minister T Shyamkumar.
