Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 177 · Decided 13 February 2020
Rambabu Singh Thakur v. Sunil Arora & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 177 · [2020] 2 S.C.R. 925
- Case number
- CONTEMPT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 2192/2018
- Decided
- 13 February 2020
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, S. RAVINDRA BHAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Contempt
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 129, 142
Headnote
Election Laws: Criminalisation of politics in India - In *Public Interest Foundation and Ors. v. Union of India, this Court had issued certain directions observing the increasing criminalisation of politics in India and a lack of information about such criminalisation amongst In the instant case, documents placed on record showed an alarming increase in the incidence of criminals in politics over the last four general elections - No explanation offered by the political parties regarding pending criminal cases against their candidates - Therefore, in
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