New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- The Supreme Court on Friday extended the time accorded to the Telangana assembly Speaker to decide on the disqualification petitions against two out of the 10 rebel Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) legislators by three weeks, failing which it cautioned of initiating contempt proceedings.

A bench of justices Sanjay Karol and AG Masih said, "List after three weeks. We expect the Speaker to positively take a decision, failing which we will proceed with contempt."

The order came in a bunch of petitions by BRS leaders, including a contempt petition filed by KT Rama Rao, the working president of BRS, who alleged that the Speaker was in contempt for violating the three-month deadline for deciding on the disqualification pleas s...