The Supreme Court on Friday (13.10.2023), issued notice to the Centre and the National Medical Commission in a plea challenging the live demonstration of medical surgeries to trainee doctors,.
Bribery can never be a subject matter of immunity and parliamentary privilege is not meant to place a lawmaker above the law, the Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court which reserved its verdict on reconsideration of its judgment of 1998 when it held that MPs and MLAs enjoy immunity from prosecution for taking bribe to make a speech or cast a vote in legislature.
The Attorney General suggested a functional test, saying that immunity would extend to speech or acts of voting needed to discharge the duty of a legislator, without fear of consequences.