Bangalore: The Centre is planning to bring a
bill in the forthcoming session of the Parliament that would
ensure that no tainted judges were allowed to continue, Union
Law Minister Veerappa Moily said today.
"The government is planning to table the Judicial
Accountability and Standard Bill-2009 in the forthcoming
session. It would replace the Judges Inquiry Act of 1968," he
said.
The bill was at the inter-ministerial consultative stage
and would come up before the cabinet in 10 days. It aims at
ensuring accountability and standard among the judiciary and
ensure that no tainted judges were allowed to continue, the
minister said.
There was a perception doing the round that the judiciary
was corrupt. The bill would ensure that no judges with tainted
character were within the system, he said.
The Centre was also planning to introduce a bill aimed at
preventing discrimination of HIV patients.
The bill, which is likely to be introduced in the budget
session of the Parliament, "has been a long pending bill",
Moily told reporters here on the sidelines of global
consultative meeting on the Right to Health.
"There have been so many contradictions and different
views," he said, adding that now all these have been sorted
out and deliberated.
-PTI
First Published: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 00:17