After a lull of three years, the Madras high court will recommence on August 12 hearing on a plea moved by 21 DMK MLAs, including party president M K Stalin, challenging a privilege motion initiated against them for waving gutka packets in Tamil Nadu assembly. The first bench of Chief Justice AP Sahi and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy said that they would allot August 12 exclusively to hear the matter.

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Gutka ban: Madras high court to recommence hearing on plea challenging privilege motion against 21 DMK MLAs

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CHENNAI: After a lull of three years, the Madras high court will recommence on August 12 hearing on a plea moved by 21 DMK MLAs, including party president M K Stalin, challenging a privilege motion initiated against them for waving gutka packets in Tamil Nadu assembly.
The first bench of Chief Justice AP Sahi and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy said that they would allot August 12 exclusively to hear the matter.
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The decision was taken after advocate general Vijay Narayan and government pleader V Jayaprakash Narayan made a mention before the bench that the 21 MLAs are enjoying an interim order granted by the court staying further proceeding in the privilege motion for over three years now.
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“The term of the legislators as well as the Tamil Nadu is going to expire soon, and the case must be allotted an early hearing and brought to a logical conclusion,” Vijay Narayan said.
Senior advocates N R Elango and Shanmugasundaram representing the MLAs submitted that they would be engaging senior counsels from Delhi and assured the court that they would not seek any adjournment.

Recording the submission, the bench fixed the date of hearing as August 12.
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DMK MLAs face privilege proceedings for having brought in sachets of banned gutka inside the assembly. They displayed the packets to show how freely the material was available in the open market.
On August 28, 2017, the privilege committee of the assembly initiated the privilege proceedings and issued show-cause notices to Stalin and 20 MLAs.
Challenging the proceeding, the 21 legislators moved the high court. On September 7, 2017, the high court stayed further proceedings in the issue.