"NEW DELHI: The government notification constituting a joint committee
to draft the Lokpal Bill has been challenged in the Supreme Court. A
PIL filed in the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional to have
persons who were not Members of Parliament in the drafting committee.
The Supreme Court should quash the notification as 'unconstitutional'
and 'ultra vires,' said advocate ML Sharma in his petition. "The
impugned notification is out of rule of the House which is empowered
under Article 118 of the Constitution and all committee for proposed
legislation is framed by the Speaker of the House only. Hence the
impugned notification is out of jurisdiction and unconstitutional and
is liable to be quashed with immediate effect," it said.
The five persons who have been included in the drafting committee are
Shanti Bhushan (co-chairman of the committee), his son Prashant,
social activist Anna Hazare, retired SC judge Justice Santosh Hedge
and RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal. None of them are members of the
either House of Parliament but were chosen after Hazare led a protest
demanding a Lokpal Bill.
The PIL sought a CBI or judicial inquiry into the conduct of co-
chairman of the drafting committee , Shanti Bhushan, and his son, and
member of the committee, Prashant, alleging professional misconduct as
they levelled allegations against several former CJIs. Shanti had on
September 16, 2010, declared in public that out of 16 former CJIs,
eight were corrupt and six had doubtful integrity. Bhushan had also
challenged the SC to send him to jail."
On Apr 18, 3:51 pm, "R. Dua" <r.dua1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sarabjitji, good to have ppl like you around. You don't go with the hype but
> try the sift method. As the situation demands remedies, so as many
> knowledgeable ppl on the Anti corruption band wagon the better. Am sure you
> cant disagree on this.
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anna Hazare says he did not receive any reply / acknowledgment from the PM.
>
> > I am saying he is lying
>
> > "Pressurising" is anti-citizen. and anti-democratic It creates distortions
> > in the process
> > and legiitimises that "some pigs are more equal than others".
>
> > Are you saying that it is OK for Anna Hazare to use extraordinary methods
> > to agitate his grievance without availing his ordinary remedies ?
>
> > If so, by necessary implication are you conceding that Ms Aruna Roy (by
> > virtue of the fact that she is a NAC member) is the only citizen stakeholder
> > to be considered by DoPT for draft RTI Rules ? If so why has DoPT not
> > notified the amended rules incorporating her comments as approved by the NAC
> > ?
>
> > This entire drama is being stage managed to ensure that only activists
> > remote controlled by Rahul brigade are on the 50:50 committee for LokPal
> > Bill so that final Bill is a worthless / unenforceable enactment like the
> > RTI Act 2005
>
> > Sarbajit
>
> >> Sarbajit
No comments:
Post a Comment