A plea filed by the disqualified Karnataka legislators challenging the membership termination in the assembly was reportedly mentioned before a Supreme Court bench on Tuesday for an urgent hearing. The legislators have approached the top court challenging the decision after were disqualified by then Karnataka Assembly Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar as per the anti-defection law.

A single-judge bench of Justice Arun Mishra informed that the Registrar would examine the plea. On August 1, the disqualified Congress-JD(S) MLAs had moved the Supreme Court seeking to quash Kumar's order disqualifying them for the rest of the term of the present Assembly.