We sent an email to: Please click on the link inside the email to complete your registrationThis service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Please try again later.The username entered is already associated withanother account. Please enter a different usernameThe email address you have entered is already in use.Please re-enter the email address.Sajjad Hussain/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesCivil society member Arvind Kejriwal burnt a copy of the Lokpal Bill during a protest near New Delhi last week.The government? last week tabled its version of draft legislation to set up the Lokpal, a corruption complaints ombudsman. Anti-corruption advocates were quick to burn copies of the government draft, because, as expected, it doesn’t allow the agency to investigate a sitting prime minister. But what else is in the draft? Here’s a quick guide.1. Staffing. The chairperson of the Lokpal must be a former chief justice or judge in the Supreme Court of India. In addition,toms outlet, the Lokpal should have eight other members of whom at least four must also have been a former chief justice or judge of the Supreme Court.This restricts the pool of candidates for at least five spots to people over the age of 65, which is the retirement age for Indian Supreme Court justices. At any given time, there should be 31 serving Supreme Court judges, though in any given year just a handful will retire.For the remaining spots, candidates should have at least 25 years of experience in anti-corruption policy, governance, finance or management.These people will be selected by a committee of eight, including the prime minister, Lok Sabha speaker, Lok Sabha opposition leader, Rajya Sabha opposition leader, one Cabinet minister, one judge, one legal scholar and one person of “eminence in public life.”2. Jurisdiction. The Lokpal can investigate a prime minister after he or she has left office; a sitting or former minister; members of parliament (with some limitations); “Group A” civil servants and above (as defined in the 1989 Prevention of Corruption Act); and the chairperson and senior executives of a company or body that is at least partly financed by the government or controlled by it.The Lokpal can also investigate executives of bodies and trusts that receive public donations and that have an income over an amount to be decided. This is a provision that could apply, for example, to yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s trusts.Only a chief justice can investigate allegations of corruption against the Lokpal chairperson and members, but other Lokpal employees come under this act’s jurisdiction.The statute of limitations has been set at seven years for complaints that can be investigated.3. Investigation,toms shoes sale. The Lokpal will have an investigation wing to inquire into whether a public se Related articles:
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