{"id":127591,"date":"2017-04-27T18:51:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=127591"},"modified":"2017-05-03T15:57:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T10:27:22","slug":"the-lokpal-and-lokayukta-act-2013-is-an-eminently-workable-piece-of-legislation-fit-to-be-implemented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2017\/04\/27\/the-lokpal-and-lokayukta-act-2013-is-an-eminently-workable-piece-of-legislation-fit-to-be-implemented\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lokpal and Lokayukta Act, 2013 is an eminently workable piece of legislation & fit to be implemented"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supreme Court<\/strong>: Directing the Union of India to implement the Lokpal and Lokayukta Act, 2013, the bench of Ranjan Gogoi and Navin Sinha, JJ held that the Act as it stands today is an eminently workable piece of legislation and there is no justification to keep the enforcement of the Act under suspension till the amendments are carried out.<\/p>\n

The Union of India had argued that certain provisions of the Act need to be altered to make the provisions thereof workable in a meaningful manner to which the writ petitioners had responded by saying that the very fact that the Lokpal and Lokayuktas and Other Related Law (Amendment) Bill, 2014 has been gathering dust from the date of its introduction in the Parliament i.e. 18.12.2014 would sufficiently demonstrate the lack of executive\/legislative will to give effect to a salutary enactment en-grafting a vital requirement of democratic functioning of the Government, namely, accountability of the political executive and those in high echelons of public office, to an independent body i.e. Lokpal.<\/p>\n

The Amendment Bill seeks the following major changes\/inclusions in the 2013 Act:<\/p>\n