No immunity for MPs, MLAs taking bribe to vote, make speech in Home: SC – Kashmir Reader

New Delhi: MPs and MLAs taking bribes to vote or make a speech within the Home will not be immune from prosecution, the Supreme Courtroom mentioned on Monday in a landmark, unanimous verdict that overrules its 1998 judgment defending such lawmakers.

Observing that bribery shouldn’t be protected by parliamentary privileges, a seven-judge structure bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud held {that a} five-judge bench’s interpretation within the 1998 verdict within the JMM bribery case was opposite to Articles 105 and 194 of the Structure.

Describing the judgment as “nice”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned in a publish on X that it will “guarantee clear politics and deepen individuals’s religion within the system”.

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