{"id":166754,"date":"2017-11-01T16:31:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T11:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=166754"},"modified":"2017-11-01T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T11:01:28","slug":"constitute-special-courts-disposal-cases-mps-mlas-sc-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2017\/11\/01\/constitute-special-courts-disposal-cases-mps-mlas-sc-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitute Special Courts for disposal of cases against MPs and MLAs: SC to Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Supreme Court<\/strong>: The bench of Ranjan Gogoi and Navin Sinha, JJ asked the Central Government to constitute Special Courts to deal with cases involving MPs and MLAs and speedy disposal of these matters after the Election Commission of India recommended life ban on politicians convicted in criminal cases. The bench asked Centre to apprise it with the details of the criminal cases lodges against politicians from 2014 till date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court asked Centre to place before it details regarding 1,581 cases involving MPs and MLAs, as declared by politicians at the time of filing their nominations during the 2014 general elections and that\u00a0how many of these 1,581 cases have been disposed of within one year and how many have ended either in conviction or acquittal of the accused.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Centre told the bench that decriminalisation of politics has to be done and it was not averse to the setting up of special courts to deal with cases involving politicians and that the\u00a0recommendations of the Election Commission of India and the Law Commission favouring life-time disqualification of politicians convicted in criminal cases was under the active consideration of the government.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court, hence, asked Centre to place before it the scheme for setting up of such special courts and also indicate the amount of funds that could be earmarked for the purpose. 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