Indian election officials count votes inside a counting centre in Srinagar on May 23, 2019. - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked on course May 23 for a major victory in the world's biggest election, with early trends suggesting his Hindu nationalist party will win a bigger majority even than 2014. (Photo by Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP)
New Delhi (AFP): More than 40% of lawmakers in India's new parliament face criminal charges - some as serious as murder and rape - and the list is growing, an electoral reform group said Saturday (May 25).
One MP for the opposition Congress party is battling 204 cases including manslaughter and robbery, the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) said.
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