nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/240cf5e205bd12a9 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240313s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/240cf5e205bd12a9 doi eng 342 23 Kalra, Kartik Author aut Privileges Constrained - On the Indian Supreme Court’s Rejection of Bribery as Parliamentary Privilege Kalra, Kartik Verfassungsblog 2024-03-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Last week, the Indian Supreme Court delivered its judgment in Sita Soren v. Union of India, holding that parliamentary privilege – the constitutionally recognized legal immunity of legislators – does not extend to bribe-taking for exercising their legislative vote or speech a certain way. In this blog post, I discuss the Court’s formulation of the essentiality test, as well as its conclusions on the availability of privilege for bribe-taking. I argue that while the ruling can strengthen democratic institutions since it protects the integrity of legislative processes, certain risks in the essentiality test’s composition – which risk depriving important legislative functions of privilege – must be addressed. CC BY-SA 4.0 Corruption Corruption Immunity Indian Parliament Indian Supreme Court Indien Parliamentarism (DE-588)10314480-8 gnd Corruption (DE-588)4026722-2 gnd Indien Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/privileges-constrained/ raw object