India, Oct. 13 -- The Madras High Court on Tuesday upheld Tamil Nadu Speaker JCD Prabhakar's decision to accept the resignation of six AIADMK MLAs.

The six MLAs - Maragatham Kumaravel, Sathyabama, Isakki Subbaiah, Jayakumar, MR Vijayabhaskar and C Vijayabhaskar - resigned earlier this year and shifted their allegiance to chief minister Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK).

After the assembly speaker accepted their resignations, a petition was filed challenging the decision, alleging that the resignations were accepted without a proper inquiry while disqualification proceedings against the legislators were pending.

A disqualification plea had been filed over allegations that the six MLAs voted in support of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhaga...