15-12-2017, 03:29 PM
POCKET VETO
*Pocket Veto is a kind of veto enjoyed by the president of India.By this the President can keep a bill pending for an indefinite period
*This power of the President not to take any action (either positive or negative) on the bill is known as pocket veto.
*The President can exercise this veto power as the constitution does not prescribe any time - limit within which he has to take the decision with respect to a bill presented to him for his assent.
*The first President to use Pocket Veto -Gyani Zail Singh
*1986 Indian Post Office Amendment Bill
Impeachment of the President
*Under Article 61 of the Constitution,the President can be removed from office by the process of impeachment
*Under Article 61 of the Constitution, the President can be removed from office by the process of impeachment.
*The only ground for the impeachment of the President is “violation of the constitution”.
*The impeachment process can be initiated by either House of Parliament. The charges should be signed by one-fourth of the total members of the initiating House and a 14 days advance notice should be given to the President.
*If the resolution is passed by 2/3 majority of the total members of the House, the bill is sent to the other House. Then the other House sets up a committee to investigate the charges against the President.
*The President can defend himself by taking service of the Attorney General of India or any other lawyer of his choice.
*If the other House also passes a resolution by 2/3 majority of the total members of the House, then the President is removed from his office from the date on which the bill is so passed.
*The impeachment is a quasi-judicial procedure and all the members of the (both elected and in the Impeachment of the President.
*No President has so far been impeached.
