The Supreme Court said that the People with criminal
antecedents becoming members of Parliament and state assemblies is a problem
and the legislature should not ignore it. Attorney general K K Venugopal
suggested that the Supreme Court could ask Parliament to enact a law debarring
those from polls against whom charges had been framed in heinous crimes. Since,
the Court told to a bunch of petitioners, who sought a direction to debar candidates
with criminal background from contesting elections, that the Court was bound by
the Laxman Rekha which mandated constitutional courts only to declare the law
and not legislate.
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