The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea of Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, a Congress MP from West Bengal, challenging a Delhi high court order refusing to stay his eviction from bungalow at New Moti Bagh here.
In an unusual order, the Apex Court rejected Chowdhury's plea when his counsel mentioned the matter for urgent hearing and said that it is not going to list it and rather dismissed it at the threshold.
"Taken on board and dismissed," a Bench, headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur, said, adding, "You are an MP and you want to stay in a bungalow to which you are not entitled. What kind of petition is this. You just vacate." The Bench took a note of the submission that Chowdhury was earlier never asked to vacate the premises and has been paying the market rent to the government.