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Speed up trial of politicians-SC
November 2 , 2017
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- Taking a step towards electoral reforms, the Supreme Court asked the government to frame a central scheme for setting up special courts across the country to exclusively try criminal cases involving ‘political persons.’
Quick facts
Quick facts
- There are around 1581 criminal cases pending against MPs and MLAs at the time of the 2014 elections.
- In the current 16th Lok Sabha one third members have been registered with criminal cases.
- As per Representation of People Act 1951, if a elected representative is convicted of any criminal offence and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than 2 years shall be disqualified from the date of such conviction and shall be continue to disqualified for further period of 6 years since the representative release.
- In 2013 Lilly Thomas case verdict, Supreme Court held that legislators will incur immediate disqualification on conviction. It struck down a provision for an appeal against their conviction within 90 days.
- In 2014 Public India Foundation case, Supreme Court ruled that criminal trials, especially those dealing with corruption and heinous offences, involving elected representative should be completed in a year. Thus putting a deadline on the trial process.
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