Criminalisation Of Politics

Full text: Supreme Court judgment on disqualification of politicians facing criminal charges from contesting elections

The Supreme Court on Tuesday left the matter of disqualification of politicians carrying criminal charges against them, to the Parliament saying that the Court cannot add to the grounds of disqualification.

'Prison break': How I became a ‘guest’ of Mohammad Shahabuddin in Siwan Jail

This writer once had the 'privilege' of becoming a guest of Siwan strongman Mohammad Shahabuddin in jail, in the year 1997