New Delhi, March 9: Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru asserted in the Lok Sabha today that it was an “absolutely wrong approach” to appoint a tribunal to hear charges “about which we know nothing.”
Mr Nehru, who was replying to questions on Mr C.D. Deshmukh’s demand for a permanent tribunal to go into cases of corruption among highly placed persons in office, declared that it was “fundamentally a wrong thing” for a member, or a person outside, to make charges “without coming up and satisfying some kind of authority.”
The Speaker, Mr Ananthasayanam Ayyangar disclosed that he had received notice of a privilege motion to the effect that charges made outside detracted members of the Parliament from discharging their responsibilities without fear or favour.