{"id":303227,"date":"2018-09-25T09:56:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T09:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303227"},"modified":"2018-09-25T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T09:56:42","slug":"sc-refuses-to-disqualify-politicians-facing-criminal-charges-from-polls-asks-parliament-to-enact-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-refuses-to-disqualify-politicians-facing-criminal-charges-from-polls-asks-parliament-to-enact-law\/","title":{"rendered":"SC refuses to disqualify politicians facing criminal charges from polls, asks Parliament to enact law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-299685 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Supreme Court on September 25 refused to disqualify candidates facing criminal charges from contesting elections, and asked Parliament to frame an appropriate law instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court said, \u201cNational interest demands parliament enacts such legislation and the country awaits such legislation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A SC five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra and comprising of Justices Rohinton Nariman, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra was responding to petitions seeking the disqualification of politicians from contesting elections once charges are framed against them by a court of law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We are not in a position to add disqualification of candidates on filing of chargesheet in criminal cases,&#8221; apex court added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SC bench said that citizens have a right to be informed about the antecedents of their candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The apex court directed the candidates and political leaders, with criminal cases pending against them, have to inform their respective political parties about their criminal records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay reportedly said, &#8220;The Supreme Court said each candidate will also submit details to the Election Commission and they will upload it on the website. The court said that the candidates must submit their criminal records to their respective political parties that will publish it on electronic, print and local media, at least three times before the polling date.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court reserved its verdict in the matter on August 28.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on September 25 refused to disqualify candidates facing criminal charges from contesting elections, and asked Parliament to frame an appropriate law instead. The Supreme Court said, \u201cNational interest demands parliament enacts such legislation and the country awaits such legislation.\u201d A SC five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra and comprising of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":299685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[898,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303228,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303227\/revisions\/303228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}