Rahul Gandhi attacks Rajasthan govt ordinance to shield judges, babus from public scrutiny, probe
In tune with his new aggressive avatar on Twitter, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi attacked Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje over a controversial ordinance, pointing out that the year was "2017, not 1817".
Madam Chief Minister, with all humility we are in the 21st century. It's 2017, not 1817, Gandhi tweeted. He also tagged a news report titled Rajasthan ordinance is against free speech, say legal experts . The report said the ordinance prohibited an investigation without prior sanction against judicial officers and public servants and also restricted the media.
It said under the proposed law, the media cannot report on accusations against magistrates and others until the prosecution gets the go-ahead from the sanctioning authority. The state government on Saturday issued a clarification after outrage on social media over the controversial ordinance.
An ordinance by the Rajasthan government will prevent cases being lodged against officers and judges for any act commited by them while they were in service. The ordinance also prevents courts from issuing directions to register cases against them. Further the ordinance prevents that the names or pictures of the persons to be made public.
The Ordinance was implemented on September 7 and is likely to come up for discussion in the coming assembly session to take the form of a Bill.
The ordinance titled Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 is an Amendment in the section 156 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and provides that “no magistrate shall order an investigation against a person who is or was a judge or magistrate or a public servant, as defined under any other law for the time being in force, in respect to the act done by them while purporting or act in the discharge of their official duties, except with previous sanction under the section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Act No 2 of 1974) or under any other law for the time being in force”
With PTI inputs
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