Fast-track courts for MPs, MLAs: Is SC encroaching legislature's domain?

A court creating and enforcing law is at odds with separation-of-powers doctrine - that one organ of state will not encroach the domain of another. But in this case, SC seems to have done just that

The Supreme Court recently directed the Centre to draft a ‘scheme for setting up fast-track courts for dealing exclusively with criminal cases involving legislators and political persons. Sanjay Hegde and Pranjal Kishore explain why the apex court direction might fall in the realm of judicial overreach.

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Nearly a third of the members of the current parliament face criminal charges. Last week, the Supreme Court directed the Central Government to draft a ‘scheme for setting up of fast track Courts exclusively to deal with criminal cases involving political persons’. During the hearing, the Additional Solicitor General stated that ‘the Union Government