-Moneycontrol.com Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2022: In all, 135 (22 percent) of 623 candidates in the third phase have criminal cases filed against them, according to an analysis of affidavits by the Association for Democratic Reforms and Uttar Pradesh Election Watch. In Uttar Pradesh, 135 (22 percent) of 623 candidates contesting third phase elections have criminal cases filed against them, according to an analysis of affidavits by the Association for Democratic Reforms...

-The Hindu Supreme Court modifies February 2020 judgment; imposes fines on major political parties, including the BJP and the Congress. The Supreme Court on Tuesday warned Parliament that the nation is losing patience with the advent of criminals in politics even as it imposed fines on major political parties, including the BJP and Congress, for covering up from voters the criminal past of the candidates they had fielded in the Bihar Assembly...

-NDTV.com Petitions have asked for contempt against political parties for not obeying the February 2020 orders of the Supreme Court. New Delhi: Political parties must make criminal records of their poll candidates public within 48 hours of their selection, the Supreme Court said today, in a big step towards decriminalising politics. In an earlier ruling in February last year linked to the Bihar election in November, the Supreme Court had said candidates must...

-The Hindu ADR analysis finds 71% of winning candidates in Kerala, 60% in T.N., 49% in Bengal have criminal cases Over half of the newly-elected MLAs of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and West Bengal had declared criminal cases against themselves in their election affidavits, the Association for Democratic Reforms said in a report on Wednesday. The recently-held Assembly elections, which concluded with counting of votes on May 2, led to the election...

-Livemint.com A new study from India links the rise in mineral prices to the electoral success of politicians with violent crime records The mining sector in India has earned a bad name for itself due to its frequent links with corruption and crime. Bribes are often given away for licences and approvals, and whistleblowers risk violence. A new study has found that a boom in the mining sector can even be linked...