“The police is directed to book all those involved in the offence of taking bribe and their middlemen, and get them punished according to the law,” the court said. It declined to quash the FIR against the scribes, saying that it was an admitted fact that a cognisable offence had been committed.
Eleven MPs — 10 from the Lok Sabha and one from Rajya Sabha — were expelled from Parliament in December 2005 after a TV channel showed them taking bribe for asking questions in the House.