LOKPAL INTRODUCTION
The first Lokpal Bill was passed in the 4th Lok Sabha in 1969 but could not get through in Rajya Sabha, subsequently, Lokpal bills were introduced in 1971, 1977, 1985, 1989, 1996, 1998, 2001, and 2005 and in 2008, yet they were never passed. The Lokpal Bill was visualized as the watchdog institution or ministerial probity. Broadly the provisions of different bills empowered the Lokpal to investigate corruption cases against political persons at the central level. The Main objective of the bill is to provide speedy, cheaper form of justice to people. In the proposed system Lokpal will have complete powers to dismiss a corrupt official. LokPal will have powers to probe or prosecute any judge, even CJI, without any permission while in present scenario CJI permission is required even to register FIR against any judge.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1. To study the differences between Lokpal Bill and Jan Lokpal Bill 2. To study the latest updates on Lokpal Bill in India. 3. To study the advantages and disadvantages of Lokpal Bill in India.
METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY
The method of research study would be descriptive using the secondary sources of data. The secondary data has been collected from various references which already existed in published form.
HYPOTHESIS
Lokpal is an ombudsman in India conferred with powers to check corruption in India.
CHAPTERIZATION
I. II.
BACKGROUND AND HISTORY OF LOKPAL UNDERSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF LOKPAL AND LOKAYUKT ACT
III.
ANALYSING THE PRESENT BILL: ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES & LOOPHOLES
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LOKPAL AND JAN LOKPAL: COMPARISION
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CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION
Lokpal is highest institution in India to investigate corruption at higher places in Government. Creation of Lokpal institution is under process. Many previous attempts were unsuccessful due to lack of political support. This institution will cover all government ministers, officers at centre including
Prime Minister (Under Debate). Lokpal bill at the current state has lots of loopholes and does not serve the purpose entirely.
The Lokpal cannot, under the proposed Bill, investigate any case against the PrimeMinister in the arena of external affairs and defence. As a part of this movement, N. Santosh Hegde, a former justice of the Supreme Court of India, Prashant Bhushan, a senior lawyer in the Supreme Court along with the members of the India against Corruption movement drafted an alternate bill, named as the Jan Lokpal Bill. The research work would be intended to analyse these aspects of the Lokpal.
BIBLIOGRAPHY •
Mahabir Prashad Jain, Lokpal: Ombudsman in India, Academic Books, 1970
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Ashutosh Kumar Mishra, Lokpal & Lokayukt Act, 2013, Discount Book Store
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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao, Lokpal: Facts and Arguments, Har-Anand Publications, 2012
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Subhash C. Kashyap, Judicial Activism and Lokpal, Uppal publishing house, 1997
