IMPHAL, July 11 - A division bench of the High Court of Manipur has suspended the disqualification of Trinamool Congress MLA Tongbram Robindro Singh by the Speaker�s Tribunal of the Manipur Legislative Assembly �till the next date,� according to legal sources here.
The division bench comprising Justice Lanusungkum Jamir and Justice Ahanthem Bimol Singh of the High Court of Manipur issued an order in this regard on Friday. The next hearing of the case is scheduled on July 20, the sources said.
The development came after the Trinamool Congress MLA, who was barred from voting during the recent Rajya Sabha polls along with three Congress MLAs by the Speaker�s Tribunal under the anti-defection law, filed a case in the High Court.
Robindro Singh was elected from the Thanga Assembly Constituency in Bishnupur district in the 2017 Assembly election. He has been supporting the BJP-led coalition Government in the State since its formation in March, 2017.
Along with eight other MLAs including three from the BJP, one Independent and four from the NPP, Robindro Singh had withdrawn support to the State Government on June 17. However, the NPP MLAs later returned to the Government.
In another development, former Chief Minister and Congress Legislature Party leader O Ibobi Singh on Friday rejected the allegation levelled against two Congress MLAs and a Congress worker by former MLA S Subhaschandra of the BJP.
In a police complaint, Subashchandra alleged that he was asked to resign from the Legislative Assembly as well as the BJP by two Congress MLAs and a Congress worker.
Earlier this year, Congress MLA Th Shyamkumar Singh resigned from the Assembly after the intervention of the Supreme Court on anti-defection charges. Last month three BJP MLAs had resigned, while three Congress MLAs were disqualified.