Criminalisation of politics felt in strongest form in '93 Mumbai blasts: SC
Criminalisation
of politics was felt in its strongest form during the 1993
Mumbai serial blasts which was the result of a collaboration of a
diffused network of criminal gangs, police, customs officials and their
political patrons, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.
Referring
to the report of the NN Vohra Committee, set up to study the problem of
criminalisation of politics, the top court said the panel had referred to
several observations made by official agencies, including CBI, IB and RAW,
which unanimously expressed the opinion that criminal network was virtually
running a parallel government.
It
said the committee also took note of the criminal gangs which carried out their
activities under the aegis of various political parties and government
functionaries.
The
apex court referred to the panel's report while holding today that all
candidates will have to declare their criminal antecedents to the Election
Commission before contesting polls, and termed as "unsettling" the
criminalisation of politics in the world's largest democracy. Read
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