Recently Supreme Court approved establishment of some special courts to prosecute criminal cases against legislators within a year. The number of courts to be set up are:
The Supreme Court gave the green signal for the Centre’s scheme to set up 12 fast track courts. • These will be used to exclusively prosecute and dispose of 1,581 criminal cases pending against Members of Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies within a year. • For this the apex court has directed the government to allocate Rs 7.8 crore
