ValkyaEditorial

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1 article on legislative-immunity.

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P.V. Narasimha Rao v. State (1998): the JMM bribery case and parliamentary immunity

In 1998 a five-judge Constitution Bench split 3:2 on whether legislators who take bribes to vote a certain way can be prosecuted. The majority held that a member who took a bribe and then voted was immune under Article 105(2), while one who took the bribe but did not vote was not. A digest of the facts, the precise split, and how Sita Soren later overruled it.

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