Abstract: Indians have been blessed with a constitution which is the result of brain storming of the constitutional pundits for more than three years. Crystal demarcation among legislature, executive and judiciary is unique in the constitution. It enshrined a beautiful pattern of republic for people’s participation in the governance of the country. To enhance the potentiality of governance political party system has been adopted. But, this party system is seen to paralyze the democratic political system through criminalization by the goons and the outlaws. Criminalization is now emerging as serious challenge in the Indian political system. It is a challenge to the honesty, transparency in political life. People’s expectation of their legislators has changed. They prefer a power broker to an honest politician. Leaders do not come out of blue. In fact it is said that, people get the government they deserve. In this peculiar context, judiciary has been taking active role to curb criminalization in politics by preventing legislators with criminal background from assuming public office.
Keywords: criminalization, demarcation, governance, judiciary, participation, republic.
Title: Judiciary: A Check to Criminalization in Indian Politics
Author: Dhirendra Kumar Jena
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3164 (online), ISSN 2348-3156 (Print)
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