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The Supreme Court on Thursday, 29 June, allowed Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik and the state's former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, both in prison, to participate in the no-trust vote to be held in the Assembly on Thursday.
The ministers had approached the Court on Wednesday, seeking permission to vote in the floor test. The apex court HAD agreed to hear their petitions on Wednesday, along with the Shiv Sena's plea against the conduct of the floor test.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders Malik and Deshmukh have been lodged in prison in separate money laundering cases being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
While Deshmukh was arrested in November 2021, the ED arrested Malik in February this year in connection with a probe linked to gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides.
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari ordered a floor test for the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government at 11 am on Thursday.
Reacting to the news, Sena MP Sanjay Raut said, "This is jet speed activity. There are some files lying with the Governor for the past two and a half years, no progress in those. The Governor was waiting for this moment. This is an unlawful activity."
Meanwhile, security has been strengthened outside the Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai ahead of the floor test.
(With inputs from LiveLaw.)
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Published: 29 Jun 2022,01:50 PM IST