42 lost membership of Parliament since 1988, maximum 19 in 14th Lok SabhaThe latest round of disqualification of Congress leader Gandhi, NCP leader Mohammad Faizal P P, and BSP leader Afzal Ansari came after thei...
07 May, 2023, 02.08 PM IST
MP, MLA disqualification ceases if conviction stayed, Centre said in 2017The Centre was responding to a writ petition by Lucknow-based NGO Lok Prahari, which argued that even in case of a stay of conviction - for...
30 Mar, 2023, 12.09 AM IST
Plea filed in Supreme Court against automatic disqualification of convicted legislatorsThe plea challenges the constitutional validity of Section 8(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 which lays down the automatic...
25 Mar, 2023, 01.01 PM IST
Lily Thomas, the lawyer behind the law that felled Rahul GandhiTalking to ET in 2014, Thomas said it was in 2005 that she filed the petition first, enraged at the sight of the convicted getting a stay f...
24 Mar, 2023, 04.36 PM IST
Lok Sabha disqualifies Congress' Rahul Gandhi after conviction in defamation caseRahul Gandhi, 52, a scion of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, was convicted on Thursday for a 2019 speech in which he referred to thieve...
24 Mar, 2023, 04.32 PM IST
Ordinance brought by UPA that Rahul Gandhi tore back to haunt himAn ordinance, brought by the UPA government to shield convicted lawmakers from immediate disqualification, was trashed then by Congress lea...
24 Mar, 2023, 01.30 AM IST
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...
23 Mar, 2023, 06.22 PM IST
Brendan Fraser joins starry cast of Martin Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon'The film features Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jesse Plemons and Lily Gladstone.
04 Aug, 2021, 12.24 PM IST
Jesse Plemons joins Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's 'Killers of Flower Moon'The film is set in 1920s Oklahoma and centres around the Osage Nation murders.
18 Feb, 2021, 02.24 PM IST
'Super sensitive' cases being given to junior SC judges for last 20 yearsThe allegation by four senior-most SC judges that sensitive and important cases were being assigned to "select benches" headed by junior ju...
15 Jan, 2018, 02.06 PM IST
No automatic disqualification for convicted lawmakers: Government tells Supreme CourtSeveral lawmakers were forced to vacate their seats after they were convicted by lower courts soon after the 2013 ruling that conviction wo...
21 Sep, 2017, 12.26 AM IST
Why is political class afraid of taking steps to enforce uniform civil code?There were many notable opponents to the Hindu Code Bill.J B Kriplani, a socialist, had charged the Nehru government with being communal.
24 Oct, 2016, 11.49 AM IST
Meet Lily Thomas, the 87-year-old lawyer behind clipping of wings of convicted politicians like Jaya, LaluShe is behind clipping of wings of politicians such as Jayalalithaa and Lalu Prasad who have been accused of accumulating wealth through un...
03 Oct, 2014, 12.00 AM IST
NDA government mulls big ticket electoral reforms after judicial revampSC has said that trials against lawmakers facing serious charges should be completed in a time-bound period of one year.
16 Aug, 2014, 10.54 AM IST
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."
14 Apr, 2014, 12.36 PM IST
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...
11 Jul, 2013, 03.34 AM IST
MPs, MLAs will be disqualified on date of conviction: Supreme CourtSC today struck down as ultra vires a provision which protects a convicted lawmakers against disqualification on the ground of pendency of ...
10 Jul, 2013, 03.53 PM IST