By OUR STAFF REPORTER
NAINITAL, 7 Dec: The Uttarakhand High Court has sought details of criminal cases registered against MPs and MLAs of Uttarakhand. Taking suo moto cognisance of the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court for speedy hearing of criminal cases registered against MPs and MLAs, Acting Chief Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari and Justice Vivek Bharti Sharma have asked the State Government to inform the court about the pending cases against the MPs and MLAs from the state within next two weeks.
The court had earlier also taken cognisance of the instructions of the Supreme Court, but till now the government has not provided the list of pending cases against the MLAs and MPs to the court. The Supreme Court has requested speedy hearing of the criminal cases registered against the MPs and MPs.
According to the case, in August 2021, the Supreme Court had instructed the High Courts of all the states to conduct speedy hearing of all the cases pending against the MPs and MLAs there. It was said that the state governments are withdrawing the cases of its MPs and MLAs by misusing Section 321 of the IPC. The Supreme Court had also made it clear to the High Courts that state governments cannot withdraw their cases without the permission of the High Court. It was said that a special court should be formed for speedy disposal of their cases. For this, the High Court has directed the state government to inform the court within two weeks about how many criminal cases are registered against MPs and MLAs and how many are still pending.
