The Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear a petition on November 17 seeking contempt of court proceedings against the Telangana Assembly Speaker for allegedly not acting on disqualification petitions against the BRS MLAs who defected to Congress despite the top court setting a three-month deadline in July.

On July 31, a bench of CJI Gavai and Justice AG Masih BRS MLAs asked the Telangana Speaker to decide the petitions seeking disqualification of the 10 MLAs, who defected to the Congress party, expeditiously and not later than three months.

The counsel appearing for the petitioner told a bench presided by Chief Justice of India B R Gavai, “The Speaker has not touched the matter, has not conducted any proceedings. The MLAs are continuing. Your lordships held that if any MLA were trying to p

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