India, Nov. 14 -- The Calcutta HC on Thursday disqualified senior leader Mukul Roy as member of the West Bengal Assembly under the anti-defection law for switching over to the ruling TMC, after having been elected on a BJP ticket in the 2021 elections. It also set aside Roy's nomination as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) since his membership of the House suffered disqualification with effect from June 11, 2021. A division bench presided by Justice Debangsu Basak said that it has no hesitation in setting aside speaker Biman Banerjee's order of June 8, 2022, by which he had junked a petition by LoP, seeking Roy's disqualification. P13
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