Several BJP MLAs had filed the petition last year, seeking a direction  to the Speaker to call a sitting of the Assembly for the tabling of the reports.
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The Delhi High Court is scheduled to pronounce on Friday its order on a petition by several BJP MLAs that the 14 CAG reports linked to policy initiatives of the Delhi government be tabled at the State Assembly.

Opposition leader Vijender Gupta and BJP MLAs Mohan Singh Bisht, Om Prakash Sharma, Ajay Kumar Mahawar, Abhay Verma, Anil Kumar Bajpai and Jitendra Mahajan filed the petition last year and sought a direction to the Speaker to call a sitting of the Assembly for the tabling of the reports.

The Speaker’s counsel and the Delhi government opposed the passing of such a direction by the court and said there was no urgency to table the reports at this stage when the Assembly election is due in two weeks.

In a reply, the Assembly secretariat said no useful purpose would be served in laying the CAG reports before the Assembly when its tenure will end in February and no judicial order can be passed to the Speaker in the matters of internal functioning of the legislative assembly.

During a hearing held on January 13, the court said the CAG reports should have been promptly placed before the Assembly for discussion and the State government “dragging its feet” on the issue raised “doubts on its bonafides”.

The court reserved the order on January 16 after hearing all the parties.