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DISQUALIFICATION OF CONVICTED POLITICIANS
Give details on removal, lowering disqualification of convicted politicians: SC to ECIThe Supreme Court has requested the Election Commission of India to provide details of instances where it has reduced or removed disqualifi...- Centre opposes PIL seeking life ban on convicted politiciansThe Centre has opposed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking a lifetime ban on convicted politicians, stating that such a disqualification fa...
- PIL demands lifetime ban on convicts from polls; Supreme Court seeks ECI, Centre viewsThe Supreme Court has requested responses from the Centre and Election Commission of India regarding a PIL challenging the election of conv...
- How Rahul Gandhi's early big move in politics sprung back on him"Consequent upon his conviction by the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Surat...Rahul Gandhi, Member of Lok Sabha representing the Wayan...
- Will Rahul Gandhi be disqualified as MP after today's conviction? Read what legal experts are sayingSenior lawyer and constitutional law expert Rakesh Dwivedi referred to the apex court's 2013 and 2018 judgements in the Lily Thomas and the...
- Supreme Court pulls up govt for not giving data on trial of tainted netasThe bench, led by Justice Ranjan Gogoi, observed that the central government was unprepared and listed the case for hearing again next Wedn...
- Have reduced or removed disqualification of MPs/MLAs: EC to SCThe poll panel cited only two examples, dating back to 1977, when it had exercised this power provided under the provisions of the Represen...
- Set up special courts to try cases against politicians: Supreme Court to government“You say you want to decriminalise. On the other hand, you say law and justice is a state subject and wash your hands off the matter,” a tw...
- Special courts to try politicians in national interest: Supreme CourtThe bench directed the Centre to place before it the scheme for setting up of such special courts and also indicate the amount of funds tha...
- Law panel chief says political class not serious about electoral reformsLaw Commission chairman and former Delhi High Court chief justice A P Shah said, "Institutional integrity is important to preserve."
- Lalu Prasad Yadav convicted in fodder scam, faces disqualification as MPMeanwhile, Rahul Gandhi has compounded problems by attacking the ordinance and calling for its withdrawal, virtually sealing its fate.
- Lalu Prasad Yadav’s conviction reshuffles Bihar equationsAfter Rahul Gandhi’s opposition to Ordinance seeking to circumvent a SC ruling on immediate disqualification of convicted MPs and MLAs, Lal...
- Rahul Gandhi calling ordinance on MPs 'complete nonsense' is pure politics: BJPBJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, "Which decision in the Congress can be taken without permission of Sonia ji and Rahul ji?"
- President calls Shinde, Kapil Sibal to discuss ordinance on MPsPresident summoned Sibal, Nath and Shinde, over an ordinance seeking to negate a SC judgement against convicted legislators.
- Convicted MPs, MLAs safe for now, centre saves legislators from disqualificationThe Cabinet has cleared an ordinance to protect elected MPs and MLAs from immediate disqualification on conviction for two years for any of...
- Disqualification of convicted politicians: SC refuses to hear Centre's review pleaThe apex court, however, agreed to hear the Centre's petition seeking review of its judgment barring arrested persons from contesting elect...
- Judicial over-reach: Liberty a gift of the law?The Patna High Court had ruled that “a right to vote is a statutory right. The law gives it, the law takes it away.”
- Government sitting on proposals to bar convicted politiciansThe government had been sitting on proposals to bar convicted lawmakers from contesting elections for years.
- Disqualification of sitting MPs and MLAs: What of the quality of initial convictions?Lower courts merrily flout principles enunciated by the Supreme Court time and again, and deliver convictions that are later overturned by ...
- MPs, MLAs to be disqualified from date of conviction: Supreme CourtThe apex court scrapped a provision in the RPA Act that offered convicted politicians a three-month window to appeal convictions and keep t...
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