Critical Assessment of PAC & JPC
The constitution of the two committees involves the selection of members amongst the members of parliament in proportion to their representation in parliament. The two committees have been given the power to adjudicate over many substantial matters of public importance which includes the disposal of matter of 2G scam by PAC and Ketan Parekh’s scam, Bofors scam, VVIP chopper gate scam, soft drinks pesticides matter by jpc. Unsurprisingly, barring soft drinks pesticides matter and VVIP chopper gate scam there had been no effective adjudication over all the scams. The reason for the ineffective disposal lies in the very fact that how one can pass a decision against himself. Interestingly, if a judge is found to have an interest in the subject matter then he is barred to adjudicate over the matter because of the principle of natural justice which says that no one can be a judge in a his own case. It is because the bias in such cases can be presumed. But unfortunately, this principle ...