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MPs' criminal records lost in inter-departmental volley

RTI travels from Lok Sabha secretariat to MHA to CBI

GN Bureau | October 15, 2010

An RTI query on the criminal antecedents of members of parliament (Lok Sabha) has been doing the rounds of various government departments.

On a September 9, Lucknow resident Urvashi Sharma filed an RTI application with the Lok Sabha secretariat. The applicant demanded the list of Lok Sabha members against whom criminal cases were pending during their parliament tenure ; details of such criminal cases and the final outcome of the cases.

The Lok Sabha secretariat forwarded the application to the ministry of home affairs (MHA) which further forwarded it to two departments- CBI and the legal cell of MHA.

“It is simply shocking that both the Lok Sabha secretariat and the MHA has no information on criminal antecedents of MPs. How do we expect a clean parliament in India?” says Sharma.

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