New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday lauded the Supreme Court’s judgment which held that MPs and MLAs do not enjoy immunity from prosecution for taking bribes to make a speech or cast a vote in the legislature.
“A great judgment by the Hon’ble Supreme Court which will ensure clean politics and deepen people’s faith in the system,” Modi wrote on X (formally Twitter).
A seven-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud unanimously overruled the 1998 verdict delivered by a five-judge bench in the JMM bribery case by which MPs and MLAs were granted immunity from prosecution for taking bribe to make a speech or vote in the legislature.
