Government Vs Team Anna on Lokpal Bill

                Government Vs Team Anna on Lokpal Bill

 

Should MP's be covered under Lok Pal

Difference between Jan Lokpal Bill and Draft Bill 2010 

Jan Lokpal Bill	Govt.’s Draft Lokpal Bill (2010)
Lokpal will have powers to initiate suo motu action or receive complaints of corruption from the general public	Lokpal will have no power to initiate suo motu action or receive complaints of corruption from the general public. It can only probe complaints forwarded by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha or the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
Lokpal will have the power to initiate prosecution of anyone found guilty	Lokpal will only be an Advisory Body with a role limited to forwarding reports to a "Competent Authority".
Lokpal will have police powers as well as the ability to register FIRs.	Lokpal will have no police powers and no ability to register an FIR or proceed with criminal investigations
Lokpal and the anti corruption wing of the CBI will be one independent body.	The CBI and Lokpal will be unconnected.
Punishments will be a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of up to life imprisonment.	Punishment for corruption will be a minimum of 6 months and a maximum of up to 7 years
PM can be insvestigated with permission of seven memberLokpal bench	PM can be investigated by Lokpal after she/he vacates office.
Judiciary Can be investigated though high level members maybe investigated only with permission of a 7 member Lokpal bench	Judiciary is exempt and will be covered by a separate "judicial accountability bill"
All Public Servants to be included	Only senior officers (Group A) will be covered.
Lok Ayukta and other local/State anti-corruption agency would remain in place.	All state anti-corruption agencies would be closed and responsibilities taken over by centralised Lokpal.
Lokpal can either directly impose penalties, or refer the matter to the courts. Penalties can include removal from office, imprisonment, and recovery of assets from those who benefited from the corruption	Lokpal can only refer matters to the courts, not take any direct punitive actions. Penalties remain equivalent to those in current law.

                                                           

 

 

 

     

 

Lokpal Draft Tabled in Parliament  - Dec 09,2011

The report on the Lokpal Bill was tabled in the Rajya Sabha by Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Law and Justice, Public Grievances and Personnel. In the Lok Sabha, committee member Pinaki Misra tabled the same report.
A total of 16 dissenting notes accompany the report, three of them from Congress MPs who disagree with the decision to exclude 57 lakh junior bureaucrats from the jurisdiction of the new Lokpal.
Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the committee addressed 24 issues and on 13 of these, "there was 100% unanimity."

The draft reportedly recommends -
Group C and D Bureaucrats should be brought under State Lokayuktas and at the Central level under the CVC.
Control of the CBI be outside the Lokpal
Including the PM under the Lokpal's purview should be left to Parliament.