On Friday, the Apex Court asked the Union Govt and Election Commission to file their much awaited responses to a PIL seeking debarment of candidates against whom charges are framed in any heinous offence by a trial court & veered into a sermon on virtues of character & values.
“If we have to survive as a nation, each of us have to have character & values. Look at the menace of corruption. In the western countries, common man is never bogged down by it. Here corruption is there even at the grassroot level. That is the real problem,” said a bench of Justices K M Joseph & B V Nagarathna.
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PIL petitioner-advocate Ashwini Upadhya said if a court frames charges against a government employee in a heinous offence, he is either suspended or dismissed from service. But a candidate, unless convicted in a criminal case & sentenced to two or more years of imprisonment, would continue as a minister, parliamentarian or a legislator.
“A person, who on charges being framed in a heinous offence, cannot become even a peon, can become a legislator & even a law minister,” Upadhyay said, prompting Justice Joseph to ask EC counsel Amit Sharma for his views.
Supreme Court asked the Centre & EC to file their responses within 3 weeks & posted the case for further hearing in the first week of April.
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