{"id":53327,"date":"2018-07-10T12:58:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T07:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=53327"},"modified":"2018-07-10T12:58:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T07:28:02","slug":"sc-seeks-response-on-ahmed-patels-plea-to-stay-proceedings-in-guj-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-seeks-response-on-ahmed-patels-plea-to-stay-proceedings-in-guj-high-court","title":{"rendered":"SC seeks response on Ahmed Patel&#8217;s plea to stay proceedings in Guj High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/sc.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-attachment-id=\"53268\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-agrees-for-urgent-listing-of-pleas-against-nikah-halala-polygamy\/sc-41\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"302,201\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-53268\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/sc.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/sc.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/sc.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/sc.jpg?w=302&amp;ssl=1 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New Delhi:<\/b>\u00a0The Supreme Court today sought the response of a BJP leader on a plea by Ahmed Patel seeking a stay of proceedings in the Gujarat High Court which is hearing a petition challenging the senior Congress leader&#8217;s election to the Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n<p>A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, however, allowed the Gujarat High Court to frame the issues to be decided by it on the petition filed by BJP leader Balwantsinh Rajput challenging Patel&#8217;s election to the Upper House. Rajput had lost the election to Patel.<\/p>\n<p>The bench, which also comprised Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, made it clear that the high court will not proceed in the matter thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>The bench then posted the matter after four weeks and asked both the parties to complete their pleadings by filing replies and rejoinder affidavits in the mean time.<br \/>\nIn his plea, Patel has said that the election petition filed by his rival BJP nominee Rajput in the high court was not maintainable and needed to be dismissed.<br \/>\nPatel was elected to the Rajya Sabha last year after defeating Rajput, who had resigned from the Congress to join the BJP which had nominated him as its candidate.<br \/>\nImmediately after Patel got elected, Rajput had filed a petition in the high court challenging the poll panel&#8217;s decision to invalidate the votes of two rebel MLAs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:\u00a0The Supreme Court today sought the response of a BJP leader on a plea by Ahmed Patel seeking a stay of proceedings in the Gujarat High Court which is hearing a petition challenging the senior Congress leader&#8217;s election to the Rajya Sabha. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, however, allowed the Gujarat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20124],"tags":[42922,2247,31987,2709,5205],"class_list":["post-53327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court-judiciary-legal-system","tag-bjp-leader-balwantsinh-rajput","tag-chief-justice-dipak-misra","tag-featured","tag-justice-a-m-khanwilkar","tag-justice-d-y-chandrachud"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC seeks response on Ahmed Patel&#039;s plea to stay proceedings in Guj High Court - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New Delhi:\u00a0The Supreme Court today sought the response of a BJP leader on a plea by Ahmed Patel seeking a stay of proceedings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-seeks-response-on-ahmed-patels-plea-to-stay-proceedings-in-guj-high-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SC seeks response on Ahmed Patel&#039;s plea to stay proceedings in Guj High Court - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi:\u00a0The Supreme Court today sought the response of a BJP leader on a plea by Ahmed Patel seeking a stay of proceedings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-seeks-response-on-ahmed-patels-plea-to-stay-proceedings-in-guj-high-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-07-10T07:28:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/sc.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"302\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"201\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/sc-seeks-response-on-ahmed-patels-plea-to-stay-proceedings-in-guj-high-court#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/sc-seeks-response-on-ahmed-patels-plea-to-stay-proceedings-in-guj-high-court\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Legal India Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0bfdffe9059fb8bb24a86d094609c5ea\"},\"headline\":\"SC seeks response on Ahmed Patel&#8217;s plea to stay proceedings in Guj High Court\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-07-10T07:28:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/sc-seeks-response-on-ahmed-patels-plea-to-stay-proceedings-in-guj-high-court\"},\"wordCount\":248,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/sc-seeks-response-on-ahmed-patels-plea-to-stay-proceedings-in-guj-high-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2018\\\/07\\\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"BJP leader Balwantsinh Rajput\",\"Chief Justice Dipak Misra\",\"featured\",\"Justice A.M. 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