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.
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The bench was dealing with the issue of whether immunity granted to lawmakers is available if there was criminality attached to their acts. | Latest News India
New Delhi: Bribery can never be a subject matter of immunity and a parliamentary privilege is not meant to place a lawmaker above law, the Centre Thursday told the Supreme Court which reserved its verdict on reconsideration of its judgement of 1998 when it held that MPs and MLAs enjoy immunity from prosecution for taking bribe to make a speech
A constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned whether immunity should be granted to legislators accused of corruption, merely on an apprehension that the absence of such immunity.