The Supreme Court has declined to ban politicians with criminal cases from contesting elections but underlined that it is time Parliament enacts laws to ensure that people with criminal cases do not enter politics. Society has a right to be governed by better people, the judges said while observing that politicians with criminal cases must be “kept at bay”. Such a law should be enacted as soon as possible, it said. “The sooner the better, before it becomes fatal to democracy,” a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court led by…
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