New Delhi: Supreme Court barred Manipur Minister T. Shyam Kumar from entering the Assembly and ordered that he would cease to be a Minister forthwith. A bench headed by Rohinton Fali Nariman, Justice S. Ravindra Bhatt restrained cabinet Minister Shyam Kumar from entering the Legislative Assembly till further orders from the Court.

The Court also said he will cease to be Minister of the cabinet immediately. The Court passed the order taking recourse to its plenary powers under 142 of the Constitution. The Supreme Court took the major decision noting that despite it giving time to Manipur Assembly Speaker to take decision on the petitions seeking the disqualification of MLAs who had crossed the floor, the Speaker did not take any call.

The Court in its order on Wednesday referred to its January-2020 judgement pointing out that 13 disqualification petitions which were filed, starting from as early as April-2017 have not yet been decided by the Speaker of the Manipur Legislative Assembly.