{"id":10193,"date":"2011-04-22T00:05:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T18:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=10193"},"modified":"2011-04-22T00:05:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T18:35:04","slug":"lokpal-panelists-reject-resignation-demand-pm-says-bill-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/lokpal-panelists-reject-resignation-demand-pm-says-bill-in-july","title":{"rendered":"Lokpal panelists reject resignation demand; PM says bill in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Prime-Minister-Manmohan-Singh1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10194\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/lokpal-panelists-reject-resignation-demand-pm-says-bill-in-july\/prime-minister-manmohan-singh-6\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/Prime-Minister-Manmohan-Singh1.jpg?fit=228%2C221&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"228,221\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/Prime-Minister-Manmohan-Singh1.jpg?fit=150%2C145&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/Prime-Minister-Manmohan-Singh1.jpg?fit=228%2C221&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10194\" title=\"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Prime-Minister-Manmohan-Singh1.jpg?resize=228%2C221&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/Prime-Minister-Manmohan-Singh1.jpg?w=228&amp;ssl=1 228w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/Prime-Minister-Manmohan-Singh1.jpg?resize=150%2C145&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a>As corruption allegations swirled around Lokpal Bill drafting panel members Shanti Bhushan and his son Prashant, social activists rejected demands for their resignation and urged them not to quit even as another member, justice N. Santosh Hegde said he would consider leaving the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he hoped to bring the Lokpal Bill, ensuring stringent anti-graft measures, in the monsoon session of parliament in July.<\/p>\n<p>RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal, a member of the drafting committee, addressing a press conference in the capital said: \u201cNo one is going to resign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was referring to allegations against the joint committee co-chair Shanti Bhushan and his lawyer son and panel member, Prashant Bhushan, of wrong-doing in land deals in Noida and Allahabad, which they have vigorously denied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to run away from the field,\u201d Kejriwal said.<\/p>\n<p>However, former Supreme Court judge Santosh Hegde, who is another member of the panel, said in Bangalore that he would come to Delhi Saturday and discuss the demand of resignations with his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>He told a TV channel that he was \u201churt by the vilification campaign (against the Bhushans) by some political leaders\u201d. \u201cI am seriously thinking of quitting the Lokpal panel,\u201d Hegde said.<\/p>\n<p>Besides alleged to be involved in wrongdoing in land deals, the Bhushans have also figured in a controversial audio CD which has purported conversations between Shanti Bhushan, Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh and expelled SP member Amar Singh trying to fix a dubious legal deal.<\/p>\n<p>While a Delhi Police source Thursday said the CD was not tampered with, the civil activists claimed the CD was fake.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Manmohan Singh said the government was hopeful of speedy work on the Lokpal Bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aim is to strengthen the legislative framework, revamp administrative practices and procedures and fast track a systemic response to fighting corruption. A committee of ministers and representatives of civil society is at work to finalise the draft of theBill, which we hope to be able to introduce during the monsoon session of parliament,\u201d he told a gathering of civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>While the prime minister put forward the government\u2019s agenda, the panel to draft the bill, set up April 9 after a fast-unto-death by reformer Anna Hazare, found itself fighting taint.<\/p>\n<p>Shanti Bhushan has claimed that the CD is forged and that he has never spoken to the two politicians &#8211; Mulayam Singh and Amar Singh. He had last week registered a police complaint.<\/p>\n<p>A Delhi Police official Thursday said that \u201cinitial\u201d reports from a forensic lab in Hyderabad suggested the CD was not tampered with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have received the reports today (Thursday) and the test confirms that it is not tampered,\u201d a source at the Delhi Police Special Cell told .<\/p>\n<p>However, Kejriwal said the CD controversy was engineered by \u201cvested interests\u201d carrying out a \u201cmalicious campaign\u201d against them.<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed out that Truth Labs in Hyderabad and an independent US audio forensic expert George Papcun had found the CD to be spliced together from earlier conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Amar Singh reiterated Thursday that the Bhushans should resign from the committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bhushans say they don\u2019t know me\u2026 He said he has not met or interacted with me, but in 1996 he appeared twice in a case filed by us. We paid fees to him which he has conveniently forgotten,\u201d Amar Singh told a TV channel.<\/p>\n<p>Amar Singh said even if the CD is spliced, the content is serious and needs to be investigated.<\/p>\n<p>In Lucknow, Congress leader Digvijay Singh was also in attack mode. He said he would answer Shanti Bhushan\u2019s defamation notice in court.<\/p>\n<p>The Bhushans also got the backing of their colleagues Kiran Bedi and Swami Agnivesh. The Bhushans, Bedi said, were doing a \u201cnational duty\u201d and had a limited agenda to draft an effective anti-corruption law.<\/p>\n<p>Former IPS officer and a member of the civil activists group India Against Corruption, Kiran Bedi meanwhile \u2018appealed\u2019 to the Bhushans not to quit the panel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are appealing to the Bhushans whatever they are suffering, bear with it as it is for national interest,\u201d Bedi said.<\/p>\n<p>Kejriwal added that withdrawal of any member at this point of time will mean derailment of the process of forming a strong anti-corruption law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf any of the members quit, who will benefit? The events are at a historic turning point, where the country could get a very stringent anti-graft law,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Agnivesh said in Ranchi that the Congress party should restrain Digvijay Singh from making defamatory statements against the civil liberty leaders. \u201cOtherwise, it will tarnish the image of the party,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As corruption allegations swirled around Lokpal Bill drafting panel members Shanti Bhushan and his son Prashant, social activists rejected demands for their resignation and urged them not to quit even as another member, justice N. Santosh Hegde said he would consider leaving the committee. 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