{"id":50669,"date":"2024-03-04T08:56:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T08:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=50669"},"modified":"2024-03-04T08:56:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T08:56:49","slug":"prime-minister-applauds-supreme-court-ruling-on-jmm-bribery-case-citing-promise-of-clean-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/prime-minister-applauds-supreme-court-ruling-on-jmm-bribery-case-citing-promise-of-clean-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Applauds Supreme Court Ruling on JMM Bribery Case, Citing Promise of Clean Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NEW DELHI, Mar 4:<\/strong> Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday lauded the Supreme Court verdict in the JMM bribery case as a \u201cgreat judgment\u201d, saying it will ensure clean politics and deepen people\u2019s faith in the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; The Supreme Court held that MPs and MLAs do not enjoy immunity from prosecution for taking bribe to make a speech or cast a vote in the legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A seven-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud unanimously overruled the 1998 verdict delivered by a five-judge bench in the JMM bribery case by which MPs and MLAs were granted immunity from prosecution for taking bribe to make a speech or vote in the legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Modi said on X, \u201cSWAGATAM! A great judgment by the Hon\u2019ble Supreme Court which will ensure clean politics and deepen people\u2019s faith in the system.\u201d (AGENCIES)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Mar 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday lauded the Supreme Court verdict in the JMM bribery case as a \u201cgreat judgment\u201d, saying it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[1032,73,1033,839],"class_list":["post-50669","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news","category-national","tag-earlypostdaily","tag-india","tag-latestnews","tag-pm-modi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50671,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50669\/revisions\/50671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}