Nov 28: History of India has been the “Crisis of Corruption”. Many politicians have been contributing and enhancing the “list of scams” over the period of Indian history.
An Indian political scandal commonly refers to some action by a politician deemed unacceptable in law or by custom, or which is held to be morally unacceptable to the politician's peers or the electorate. It has been the bare truth that in almost all Indian political scandals, the politicians are not prosecuted.
Hearing the case against the cash-for-query scam the Delhi High Court on Tuesday holding that taking bribe for asking question in the Parliament by MPs amounts to an offence directed police to initiate investigations into the role of 11 MPs in the cash-for-query scam.
The Delhi High Court ordered the investigation into their “criminal act of bribery” against all the 11 MPs giving the Delhi police two months to complete it.
It is to be noted that all of the 11MPs – ten belong to the Lok Sabha and one from the Rajya Sabha – were expelled from their respective Houses for their involvement in the cash-for-query scam.
Justice S.N. Dhingra issued the direction for criminal investigation against the MPs on a petition by a journalist, heading the “Cobra Post” organisation, which had carried the sting operation to expose them for taking money for asking questions in the House.
Slamming the Delhi police for its attitude of selective prosecution, Delhi High Court on Tuesday widened the ambit of the investigations into the 'cash-for-query scam' and directed the cops to also probe the role of 11 MPs who were videotaped accepting money in the sting operation.
The Court also ordered investigation into the role of middlemen in the same scam.
The Court also condemn the police for initiating criminal proceeding against media for doing sting operation which caught 11 MPs on camera for allegedly taking bribe for raising questions in the Parliament.
The Court passed the judgment on a petition filed by Anirudh Bahal, Editor-in-Chief of the “Cobra post” which carried out the sting operation, telecast by a news channel on December 12, 2005, showing 11 MPs taking money for raising questions in Parliament.
In 2001, another political scam was carried out by Tehelka, popularly known as Operation West End, in which top politicians and army brass were secretly filmed apparently taking bribes from reporters posing as arm dealers.
In this scam main accused were Bangaru Laxman, the BJP leader and senior defence officials apparently accepting bribes in return for favours to their fictitious firms.
After that phase of the harassment to the owner of website Tarun Tejpal started. He was repeatedly raided by the government agencies, comprising the Tax department and Intelligence Bureau.
The only aim was to deter journalists from pursuing political corruption stories.
The list of the political scam is very extensive. Some of the significant scams are listed below:
1990: Bofors Scandal
1993: Hawala Scandal
1997: Kerala SNC Lavalin power scandal
1998: The Kargil war
2003: Telgi scandal
2004: Nitish Katara Murder Case
2005: Oil-for-food programme scam
2006: Jessica Lal case
2007: Human Trafficking Scam involving Babubhai Katara
2007: Gujarat Fake Encounter Controversy
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