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Electoral reforms: SC seeks details of reference made to panel

New Delhi: Supreme Court today asked the Centre to apprise it of the points of reference made to Law Commission for suggesting “plausible” changes in legislations to ensure de-criminalisation of politics.A bench of justices R

PTI Updated on: November 25, 2013 16:35 IST


On being pointed put that Law Commission, the Election Commission and the Parliamentary Standing Committee have dealt with the issue earlier also, the bench said, “The question is as to whether the Executive has accepted the views.”

It wanted to know as to which extent the executive has accepted the views on electoral reforms of various panels.

“The views of the Government may be different from the views of the committees. The Government will have to take a view and then proceed as per rules of Parliament,” it said.

Earlier, the poll panel, in its affidavit, proposed that any person against whom a court has framed charges for offences punishable with a jail term of five years or more should be barred from contesting polls.

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