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Privileges panel to probe pepper attack
Privileges panel to probe pepper attack, Lok Sabha, Privileges Committee, Meira Kumar, L Rajagopal. The 15-member Committee, headed by senior Congress leader P C Chacko, has power to take punitive measures which include recommending imprisonment and even expulsion among others.
New Delhi: The issue of the pepper spray incident in the Lok Sabha on February 13, which saw widespread outrage and condemnation, was today referred to the Privileges Committee that has got punitive powers. The decision was taken by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar.
"The Speaker has referred the matters relating to incidents that happened in the Lok Sabha, on February 13, to the Committee of Privileges of Lok Sabha for examination and report," a Lok Sabha Secretariat release said.
The 15-member Committee, headed by senior Congress leader P C Chacko, has power to take punitive measures which include recommending imprisonment and even expulsion among others.
In a new low in India's parliamentary history, pepper spray was used in the Lok Sabha resulting in hospitalisation of three MPs following a ruckus over introduction of the Telangana bill after which 16 seemandhra MPs were suspended.
Unprecedented pandemonium broke out in the House when expelled Congress member L Rajagopal brought a canister from which he sprayed pepper. Meira Kumar directed that the Committee, headed by Deputy Speaker Karia Munda, hold the meeting to consider the events on Thursday.
