On deadlines, we must also look within: Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: On a petition seeking direction to West Bengal speaker to expeditiously decide the disqualification petitions against rebel TMC MLAs, SC Monday said before setting a deadline for other constitutional authorities, the judiciary must introspect whether it conformed to statutory deadlines for adjudication of cases.When senior advocate Kapil Sibal pressed for seeking a response from the office of the speaker on the three-month-old disqualification petitions, a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana said it will dispose of the petition asking the Supreme Court to abide by its 2020 judgement in Keisham Meghachandra Singh case, fixing a three-month deadline for a decision by the speaker.Sibal said he had no problem with this order but requested the court to examine the set pattern in which…