New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday termed it “gross contempt” on the part of the Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar over the continued delay in deciding the disqualification petitions against 10 Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLAs who defected to the ruling Congress party.

A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) B.R. Gavai and comprising Justices K. Vinod Chandran and N.V. Anjaria, was hearing a contempt petition filed by BRS leader Kaushik Reddy after the Assembly Speaker failed to comply with the top court’s July 31 direction requiring him to decide the disqualification petitions within three months.

The deadline set by the Supreme Court expired on October 31.

Taking strong exception to the Speaker’s inaction, the CJI Gavai-led Bench remarked, “It is for him (the Speaker

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