PM lauds SC verdict in JMM bribery case, says it will ensure clean politics

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed the SC judgement on Monday that overruled the JMM bribery case judgement and ordered that lawmakers who take bribes will enjoy no immunity.

"Swagatham! A great judgement by the Hon'ble Supreme Court which will ensure clean politics and deepen people's faith in the system," Modi said on X.

SC overturned its own order in the case in which four MPs from the party were charged with taking money to vote in favour of the Narasimha Rao-led Congress government in 1991 during a no-confidence motion.


The verdict comes at a time when ex-Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren is facing charges of financial wrong-doing. His father and then MP Shibu Soren was one of the four JMM MPs who had faced the bribery charge.