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Jharkhand Speaker to serve notices to MLAs
[ 7 Sep, 2006 1326hrs ISTPTI ]


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RANCHI: Notices will be served to dissident MLAs Kamlesh Singh, Enos Ekka and Stephen Marandi by Speaker Inder Singh Namdhari on separate petitions appealing for their disqualification under the tenth schedule.

"I have decided to serve notices on these three MLAs through courier and though newspaper advertisements," Namdhari told reporters.

"While a petition is already pending against Ekka for the last one and a half years, I have received two separate petitions against Singh and Marandi," he said adding he had asked the three MLAs to be present along with their lawyers on September 11 at his court.

<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><span style='font-family:Optima'>Asked what he would do if the trio did not appear before his court, Namdhari said "I can take ex-parte decision. </span></span>