Whistle-blowers bill passed by Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha late on Tuesday night passed the whistle-blowers bill, providing protection to those providing information about corruption.

Lok Sabha late on Tuesday night passed the whistle-blowers bill, providing protection to those providing information about corruption.

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The Public Interest Disclosure and Protection to Persons Making the Disclosures Bill, 2010, (the whistle-blower protection bill) was passed after the lokpal bill, as amended, was voted by the house, but the constitutional amendment bill that sought to accord statutory status to the anti-graft ombudsman was defeated.