BS Yeddyurappa pleading that they be disqualified from membership under anti-defection laws.
Bopaiah, who heard counsels of both sides for more than three hours, reserved his orders, legislature sources said.
Apparently going by a directive from governor HR Bhardwaj not to change the character or configuration of the House in the run-up to the trust vote, Bopaiah wound up the two-day hearing on the plea and decided to reserve his orders.
On October 7, a day after 19 MLAs, including 14 ruling party men submitted a letter to Bhardwaj declaring withdrawal of support to the government, Yeddyurappa petitioned the speaker seeking disqualification of 11 MLAs, as three rebels retracted their earlier action.
Government counsel Satyapal Jain informed the speaker that disqualification proceedings sought against excise minister MP Renukacharya and Narasimha Naik, MLA from Surpur constituency have been withdrawn.
Talking to media, he termed the letter written by the governor to the Speaker as "unconstitutional and derogatory, amounting to intervention in the legislature proceedings".
However, counsel for rebels, KV Raghavan disagreed and said the governor was well within his constitutional powers to send such an advisory.
