New Delhi, April 4 -- The Supreme Court (SC) expressed its displeasure over Telangana Chief Minister (CM) A Revanth Reddy's statement in the Assembly that there would be no bye-elections, and said he was expected to exercise "some degree of restraint". "Did we commit a mistake by letting him go at that time and not taking an action for contempt?" a bench of Justices BR Gavai and Augustine George Masih asked on Thursday. During Wednesday's argument also the SC observed that CM's statement is "mockery of tenth Schedule.
The top court was perhaps referring to a separate matter in which it had last year disapproved of Reddy's comments on the SC granting bail to rival Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha in cases linked to the alleged ...