{"id":27312,"date":"2018-10-23T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27312"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:02:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:32:45","slug":"make-filing-false-affidavit-a-corrupt-practice-ec-tells-law-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/make-filing-false-affidavit-a-corrupt-practice-ec-tells-law-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Make filing false affidavit a corrupt practice, EC tells Law Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/make-filing-false-affidavit-a-corrupt-practice-ec-tells-law-ministry-5369234\/\">Make filing false affidavit a corrupt practice, EC tells Law Ministry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Election Commission (EC) has asked the law ministry to consider the filing of false affidavit as a corrupt practice under the electoral law.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong><u> Present norms of filing affidavit<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>A candidate contesting an election is required to file an affidavit called Form 26 that furnishes information on her assets, liabilities, educational qualification and criminal antecedents<\/li>\n<li>Current penalty for lying, in an affidavit filed before the EC, is imprisonment of up to six months, or fine, or both.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong><u> Supreme Court view on filing false affidavit<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The Supreme Court agreed in principle that filing a false affidavit in elections is a corrupt practice and should be treated seriously.<\/li>\n<li>However, it also said that it cannot direct the Parliament to include it in corrupt practices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong><u> Section 123 of the Representation of People Act, 1951<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Eight types of acts are considered as corrupt practices.<\/li>\n<li>Bribery, appeal on grounds of religion, race and caste, creating enmity between people on the basis of religion, race and caste are among them.<\/li>\n<li>The punishment for being found guilty of engaging in corrupt practices range from imprisonment to having the election declared void.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><strong><u> Suggestion of the election commission to Ministry of Law<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Filing a false affidavit, should be made a corrupt practice under Section 123 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951<\/li>\n<li>Every contesting candidate should disclose its source of income and that of their children<\/li>\n<li>Election commission has also sought amendment in Form 16 to include disclosure on contracts entered by candidates, their spouse and dependents with the government and public companies.<strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make filing false affidavit a corrupt practice, EC tells Law Ministry News The Election Commission (EC) has asked the law ministry to consider the filing of false affidavit as a corrupt practice under the electoral law. Important facts Present norms of filing affidavit A candidate contesting an election is required to file an affidavit called&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/make-filing-false-affidavit-a-corrupt-practice-ec-tells-law-ministry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Make filing false affidavit a corrupt practice, EC tells Law Ministry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}