Two Congress nominees for the lok Sabha polls in Madhya Pradesh including State Congress Chief Arun Yadav and one sitting MP of the BJP are facing criminal cases.
Notably, in response to a PIl filed by Public Interest Foundation, the Supreme Court on Monday directed that the criminal cases against MPs and MlAs should be completed within a year from the date of framing of charges by the trial court.
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW) analysed the affidavits of the lok Sabha MPs elected in 2009. The following report analyses the criminal cases against the lok Sabha MPs which are pending for long in the court of law. Out of the 162 MPs that have criminal cases against themselves, 76 have been seriously charged with cases like murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping and robbery against themselves.
The analysis below will show, some of these cases against the MPs have remained pending for ten years and more. The average number of years that criminal cases against MPs have been pending is
7 years (until 2009) while the serious criminal cases pending for the longest duration is 29 Years is of murder against Congress MP from Ujjain Premchand Guddu.
Other MP from the State facing criminal charges is BJP’s Satna MP Ganesh Singh who is facing three under IPC Sections – 188, 166, 217, 218, 420, 467, 477A, 34 , 120B, 420, 468, 471, 34 , Other Details – 13 (1) (d),13 (2) and 15 Prevention of Corruption Act and 6 Reservation Act.
While the third MP from the State facing criminal cases is Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president and Congress candidate from Khandwa Arun Yadav who is facing charges under sections 147, 149 and 341 of the IPC.Party-wise MPs with multiple heinous cases count: 162 lok Sabha MPs have declared a total of 306 serious IPCs against themselves.
The MPs of JMM have declared 69 serious IPC counts followed by BJP MPs who have declared a total of 55 serious IPC counts, SP MPs with 34 serious IPC counts and INC MPs with 30 serious IPC counts.