Supreme Court Stays Bombay High Court Dismissal of Vishakha Raut Plea

…from Ward 191 in Dadar (West). Appearing for Raut, senior counsel Indira Jaisingh with advocate Akshay Deshmukh sought a stay as interim relief. Her SLP argued she was democratically elected on January 16 and the “ matter concerns the illegal, premature, and high-handed unseating and disqualification of the petitioner from her elected public office by the municipal commissioner during the mandatory statutory embargo period ”. There is a 90-day appeal window, and the unseating order was “in direct defiance of this statutory bar”, Jaisingh argued. For the complainant, Priya Sarvankar Gurav, who had lost the election, senior counsel Kaul…

…the small causes court. Raut, on September 8, sought rejection of the election plea. Both are pending, the Supreme Court noted. With disqualification under challenge, the post be kept open, the Supreme Court reasoned. “ In the absence of an immediate stay on the unseating order dated 25.08.2026, the petitioner faces imminent and catastrophic prejudice before the small causes court, ’’ Raut pleaded before the Supreme Court. Before the high court on September 2, Raut’s senior counsel Surel Shah argued before a division bench of Justice Girish Kulkarni and Justice Neela Gokhale that the municipal…