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Mains Paper 2: Polity | Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act
From UPSC perspective, the following things are important:
Prelims level: Provisions related to elections
Mains level: Electoral reforms by judiciary
12 special courts to be set up
- The Centre informed the Supreme Court that it will set up at least 12 special courts to try exclusively criminal cases involving MPs and MLAs
- The scheme had been given in-principle approval by the Finance Ministry on December 8
Why this move?
- The court on November 1 had directed the Centre to place before it details of 1,581 cases involving MPs and MLAs,
- This had to be as per the declaration by the politicians at the time of filing their nominations during the 2014 general elections
- Supreme Court had directed in November to the government to frame a Central scheme for setting up special courts across the country exclusively to try criminal cases involving “political persons”