
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday referred its 2016 judgment in the Nabam Rebia case to a larger bench. The apex court was delivering its judgment in the case of the defection of 16 MLAs in June 2022 from the then Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena. The Thackeray faction had sought disqualification of the MLAs under the anti-defection law of the country.