Prayagraj, Oct 25 (PTI) The Allahabad High Court has directed the MP-MLA courts to expedite trials against former and sitting lawmakers pending for more than 20 years.
A two-judge bench comprising Justices M K Gupta and Samit Gopal directed the districts to file a status report on the order by December 10.
Hearing a PIL on Thursday, the court directed the registry to compile data received from different courts and place before it in the form of a tabular chart.
During the course of hearing, in compliance with a previous order of the court, a status report was submitted by the high court office with the details of the cases pending for more than 20 years.
Nine cases of MP-MLA have been pending for even over 30 years, the data showed. PTI COR RAJ VN VN
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