{"id":27494,"date":"2018-10-23T14:24:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T08:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27494"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:24:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T08:54:34","slug":"criminal-cases-against-law-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/criminal-cases-against-law-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal cases against Law makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/pending-cases-supreme-court-asks-19-states-to-list-criminal-cases-against-lawmakers-5353442\/\"><strong>Criminal cases against Law makers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court asked 19 states to furnish information about criminal cases pending against MP and MLAs.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 petition was filed in\u00a0 Supreme Court, for speedy trial and life time ban on convicted politician in criminal cases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Objective is to decriminalize politics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Law on criminal politicians<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Certain provisions of the Representation of People (RP) Act, bar convicted politicians from contesting elections for six years after serving jail term<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special court<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to center affidavit 11 states, and union territory of Delhi have designated special court to prosecute elected politicians in criminal case<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pending cases<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Centre informed the Supreme Court that 1097 criminal cases are pending before 12 special courts against members of parliament and members of State legislatures in 11 states and a Union Territory<\/p>\n<p>Take of Election commission and law commission<\/p>\n<p>Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Law Commission favoring lifetime disqualification of politicians convicted in criminal cases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal cases against Law makers News Supreme Court asked 19 states to furnish information about criminal cases pending against MP and MLAs. The\u00a0 petition was filed in\u00a0 Supreme Court, for speedy trial and life time ban on convicted politician in criminal cases. Important facts Objective is to decriminalize politics. Law on criminal politicians Certain provisions&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/criminal-cases-against-law-makers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Criminal cases against Law makers<\/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-27494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704810435},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27494","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=27494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}