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Congress protests outside assembly against Rajasthan government's gag order

Congress protests outside assembly against Rajasthan government's gag order

| @indiablooms | 23 Oct 2017, 12:33 pm
Jaipur, Oct 23 (IBNS): The Congress staged a protest against the Rajasthan government's new ordinance, which prevents media from naming an accused public servant including MLAs, government officials, till the government considers the case to be probed, outside the assembly on Monday, media reports said.

Stirring controversy, the Vasundhara Raje government has brought a new law, that states public servants, including lawmakers, ministers and officials can only be probed after receiving government's consent, media reports said.

Following the allegations against any public servant, the government will decide within six months whether the particular case is worthy to be probed or not.

If the government fails to decide within six months time, it is bound to be sanctioned.

The Rajasthan government is set to make the ordinance into a law in the ongoing assembly session.

Challenging the order passed by the Raje government, a lawyer filed a petition in the court on Monday.

The petition has stated the new order will invite the criminals to commit crime.

The Editors Guild of India has also expressed deep regret over the new order passed by the Raje government.

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