The court also held that the petitioners were not seeking any stay on the EC's decision at this stage following which no next date of hearing was given by the poll panelThe Delhi High Court on Friday sought the response of the Election Commission to a plea by 12 AAP MLAs. The plea appealed against the poll panel's decision to continue hearing a complaint against them for allegedly holding office of profit. A similar order was also passed on August 4 after eight MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had challenged the EC's decision. Earlier, the plea filed on Friday said that the poll panel order was "wholly untenable, unjustified, arbitrary, whimsical and gross abuse of power." On September 8, 2016 the high court had set aside the appointments of the 21 AAP MLAs as parliamentary secretaries, while observing that their appointment orders were issued without the concurrence of the Lieutenant Governor (LG).

Source: dna August 26, 2017 02:03 UTC