Centre to SC: Will set up 12 special courts to decide criminal cases pending against MPs, MLAs
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The special courts will decide -- within one year, as ordered by the Supreme Court -- 1,571 criminal cases pending against the country's MPs and MLAs
The Centre has told the Supreme Court, in an affidavit filed by the law minister, that it will set up 12 special courts to decide criminal cases pending against MPs and MLA.
The special courts will decide 1,571 criminal cases pending against MPs and MLAs.
The Supreme Court has ordered that all the cases be concluded within a year.
The cases were disclosed by the politicians themselves in their 2014 poll affidavits.
A politician convicted of serious offences is not allowed to contest elections or hold government office.
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