Maharashtra Politics: Can we restore the earlier speaker and invalidate a trust vote which never took place? Supreme Court asks

Kapil Sibal, for Uddhav Thackeray faction, pointed out that change in government in Maharashtra happened due to Court's interim orders and the Court had said then that all changes would be subject to the case's outcome.
Justice Hima Kohli, Justice MR Shah, CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice Krishna Murari and Justice PS Narasimha
Justice Hima Kohli, Justice MR Shah, CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice Krishna Murari and Justice PS Narasimha

The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed reservations about the extent to which it can turn back the clock in the case concerning Maharashtra politics, opining that it might not be possible to restore the earlier speaker to decide on decide on disqualification petitions of MLAs of Eknath Shinde camp or invalidate the trust vote which never took place (since Uddhav Thackeray resigned before the trust vote was held) [Subhash Desai vs Principal Secretary, Governor of Maharashtra and ors]

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