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In 1965, L.M. Singhvi addressed India’s lower house of parliament and told parliamentarians that the need for an anticorruption ombudsman was overdue.
“It is for the sake of securing justice and for cleansing the public life of the Augean stable of corruption, real and imaginary, that such an institution must be brought into existence,” he told lawmakers at the time.
Almost half a century later, on Jan. 1, the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, to create a corruption watchdog, became the first law made in 2014.
It gives Lokpal, or the “caretaker of the people”, jurisdiction to investigate allegations of corruption made against government officials up to the rank of prime minister. Even nongovernmental organizations with foreign donations above one million rupees ($16,252) annually will fall within its purview.
The new anti-corruption machinery involves the services of federal investigators — the Central Bureau of Investigation — and the Central Vigilance Commission, which have both been made more robust and independent for the purpose.
via Inside Law: The Year Lokpal Comes of Age – India Real Time – WSJ.
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