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NEW DELHI — After a four-decade battle, Indian lawmakers took the first formal step toward creating an independent anti-corruption agency Thursday, introducing a bill in Parliament that would appoint a powerful ombudsman, or Lokpal, to investigate wrongdoing by government officials.
But the draft of the law, which exempts the prime minister, members of Parliament and many other officials from the Lokpal’s jurisdiction, was roundly rejected by many of the people who had fought for the creation of an independent agency to battle corruption.
