{"id":33237,"date":"2018-10-30T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33237"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:57:06","slug":"sc-clears-12-special-courts-to-try-cases-against-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-clears-12-special-courts-to-try-cases-against-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"SC clears 12 special courts to try cases against politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/sc-clears-12-special-courts-to-try-cases-against-politicians\/article21665775.ece\">SC clears 12 special courts to try cases against politicians<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the green signal for the Centre\u2019s scheme to set up 12 fast track courts to exclusively prosecute and dispose of 1,581 criminal cases pending against Members of Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies within a year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allocation of funds<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Bench of Justices directed the Centre to forthwith allocate \u20b97.8 crore to the States for setting up such courts.<\/li>\n<li>The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, has granted in-principle approval to the said allocation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Timeline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The States shall, in consultation with the High Courts concerned, make the courts operational by March 1, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Still not enough<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PIL petitioner and Supreme Court advocate Ashwini Upadhyay said 12 courts were not enough to try\u00a01,581 cases\u00a0and \u20b97.8 crore was too little to prosecute \u201ccriminal\u201d politicians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But Its\u2019 a start<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To this, Justice Gogoi responded that 12 courts are not the end of it. But let them start. It is very easy to blame, but to start something is difficult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Declared cases<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 1,581\u00a0criminal\u00a0cases were declared by politicians in their nominations in the 2014 general elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cases to be clubbed together<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The scheme proposes to club the cases of several politicians together and have one court hear them<\/li>\n<li>This way, the Bench expected a special court to finish at least 100 cases a year.<strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Trace out pending cases<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0directed the High Courts, acting through the various trial courts, to trace out from the case records the criminal cases pending against politicians and transfer them to the special courts concerned for adjudication.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>At rudimentary stage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court said the Centre\u2019s scheme was \u201crudimentary\u201d at this stage, but it would be open for modifications as and when the situation arises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The order comes on a petition filed by Mr. Upadhyay for a life ban on convicted politicians from contesting elections<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Hearing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The court said it would consider the issue in the next hearing in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC clears 12 special courts to try cases against politicians Context The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the green signal for the Centre\u2019s scheme to set up 12 fast track courts to exclusively prosecute and dispose of 1,581 criminal cases pending against Members of Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies within a year. 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