Parliamentary Privilege In Indian Constitutional Law: M.S.M. Sharma (1959) And P.V. Narasimha Rao (1998)

Aminpalli Sai Sharath Nihar, India Institute of Legal Education and Research ABSTRACT This article traces the profound transformation of parliamentary privilege in Indian constitutional law by explaining the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in ‘M.S.M. Sharma v. Sri Krishna Sinha (1959) and P.V. Narasimha Rao v. State (1998)’. For decades following the Sharma judgment, legislative privilege under Articles 105 and 194 operated as a supreme constitutional exception, an automatic,...