Life ban for criminal convicts: Centre has 7 days to reply

The Election Commission had earlier endorsed this view while stating that those convicted in criminal cases must be barred from contesting the elections for a lifetime.

The Centre has been given seven days time to reply to a plea seeking a life ban on those convicted in criminal cases from contesting the elections. It may be recalled that the Election Commission had earlier endorsed this view while stating that those convicted in criminal cases must be barred from contesting the elections for a lifetime.

A plea in the Supreme Court sought a directive to the EC to amend the Representation of Peoples's Act. In the plea it said that a life time ban must be imposed on those convicted in criminal cases.

The Election Commission of India in its submission to the SC earlier this week had said that it is 'alive' to the issues that concern the conduct of free and fair elections and functioning of healthy democracy and as such asserting for bringing in electoral reforms which further the cause of free and fair elections.

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