Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel is learnt to have written to the acting chief justice of the Delhi High Court, expressing agony at “developments that are purposely triggered to cripple the functioning of the Legislative Assembly”. The letter, written on October 27, was filed in court Monday, and will now be heard as a petition, sources said. The letter talks about the role of two senior bureaucrats and how they have tried to “undermine” the legislature. The letter is also learnt to state that the pronouncements of a Division Bench of the High Court “turned out to be alarmingly injurious to the relationship” between the organs of the state. The letter claims that in two of three matters heard by a High Court Division Bench, the Delhi assembly was not even served notice and that they were not able to represent their position to the bench. In the third case, the letter claims, notice was served an hour before the matter was mentioned and heard. According to sources, the letter quotes several articles of the constitution that say that the legislature is the “guardian and judge” in all matters regarding its proceedings. The letter also talks about the Assembly Committees, which have been under fire from the High Court. According to sources, the letter claims that the committees were doing their job and safeguarding public interest but were sought to be “silenced” with the help of the division bench. Two Delhi government bureaucrats have been at loggerheads with the Delhi government for the past several months over the powers of Assembly panels and committees to investigate and question them. Both obtained stays from the court against proceedings in the committees. The letter, sources said, claims that “rushed orders are further emboldening elements with pronounced disregard for democratic principles to aggravate contempt”. It also says the Assembly will not issue orders to ignore the orders but will take the route of approaching the judiciary so that they can be heard and the “deficiencies” in the three orders be rectified. Goel could not be reached for a comment.