As per the case facts the appeal arose from a High Court judgment related to a criminal appeal The appellant was a member of the Legislative Assembly and was accused ... of accepting a bribe for casting her vote in a Rajya Sabha election though she ultimately voted for her own party's candidate She sought to quash the charges against her The question arose whether the correctness of the majority view in a previous case P V Narasimha Rao regarding parliamentary privilege and bribery needed reconsideration Finally the Supreme Court at this preliminary stage was of the view that the correctness of the majority view in the P V Narasimha Rao case which has serious ramifications for probity in public life should be reconsidered by a larger bench of seven judges