(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: Lokpal & Lokayuktas

Topic: Lokpal & Lokayuktas

Guest:

Satya Prakash, (Legal Editor, The Tribune)
Ashok Tandon, (Senior Journalist)
Abhishek Atrey, (Advocate, Supreme Court)

Topic Description:

The Supreme Court on 17 January fixed a February-end deadline for the search committee on Lokpal to recommend a panel of names for appointment of the country's first anti-graft ombudsman. The search committee is headed by former apex court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi directed the Centre to provide the search committee requisite infrastructure and manpower to enable it to complete its work. The bench, also comprising justices L N Rao and S K Kaul, said it would hear the matter again on March 7. Attorney General K K Venugopal, appearing for the Centre, told the bench there were certain problems like lack of infrastructure and manpower due to which the search committee was not able to hold deliberations on the issue.