Indian Political News-Supreme Judgement Shocks MPs & MLAs-Newsmathi.com

In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court today ruled that all the convicted MPs and MLAs in a criminal case will be disqualified from holding their offices from the day of the conviction itself, even if the conviction ruling is from a trial court.In what ‘political pundits’ might call as a ‘Judicial overreach’ , The Supreme Court held that the Parliament lacked legislative competence to provide immunity to legislators convicted with criminal charges by the courts.The Parliament had enacted Representation of the People Act, 1951 in which under sub-section 4 of section 8, MPs and MLAs were given immunity from disqualification if they were convicted for certain crimes by a trial or any other court. This act was enacted based on the constitutional provisions under articles 102(e) and 191(e) which gave power to the Parliament to make such laws to specify grounds for disqualification of an MP and MLA respectively.The bench of Justices A K Patnaik and S J Mukhopadhaya, discarded the government of India’s argument and upheld the writ petitions filed by Lily Thomas and S.N. Shukla, general secretary of Lok Prahari, an NGO from Lucknow.copy of the judgement by SC -Disqualification of MP and MLA, supreme court verdict copy in disqualification of criminal MPs and MLAs, supreme court veridict, lok prahari NGO petition in Supreme court landmark verdict disqualifying convicted MPs and MLAs

Visit Video News at http://newsmasthi.com/player.php?pid=37989
Supreme Court Sensational Judgment on Tainted Ministers  http://newsmasthi.com/player.php?pid=37754
And Also More Political and Movie News at Newsmasthi