Chennai, Oct. 13 -- The Madras High Court on Tuesday upheld Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker J.C.D. Prabhakar's decision to accept the resignations of six AIADMK MLAs who defected to the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK).

The MLAs are Maragatham Kumaravel, Sathyabama, Isakki Subbaiah, Jayakumar, MR Vijayabhaskar and C Vijayabhaskar.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan partly allowed a batch of writ petitions filed by AIADMK whip Agri S.S. Krishnamurthy challenging the Speaker's order. The resignations were accepted between May 26 and June 29, 2026.

The Bench held that the acceptance was constitutionally valid and that there was no need for a roving inquiry. It also ruled that disqualificat...