Telephone defaulters
In Bangladesh, we have a law that bars loan-defaulters from contesting in general elections. Loan defaulters borrow money from state or private banks and do not return them in time.
Recently, the High Court directed Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) to realise unpaid telephone bills from 427 members of the fifth and seventh parliaments within six months. These MPs took the service from the state-owned telecom operator and did not care to pay the bills. To me, they committed the same offence as loan-defaulters and they should be barred from participating in the general election.