Carry major surgery for Weeding out the malignancy of criminalisation in Politics: Supreme Court Appeals

The court in its judgment in Brijesh Singh vs. Sunil Arora & Ors. [Writ Petition (Civil) No.536 of 2011] observed that no one can deny that the menace of criminalisation in the Indian political system is growing day by day. The court rightly mentions that it is undeniable that for maintaining purity of the political system, persons with criminal antecedents and who are involved in the criminalisation of the political system should not be permitted to be the lawmakers. The only question