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In India Parliamentary Privileges have become the "Democles swords" which hang over those whose business it is to write on proceedings of the legislatures. The Non codification of privileges causes confusion and violates the freedom of speech and expression. There are several instances after independence of India, It has been seen that parliamentary privileges has been misused for example: In 2017, two senior scribes of Kannada tabloids were jailed for the breach of privileges of the state assembly. Other instances is The Blitz case (1951) The search light case (1959), Kesav singh case and the hindu case (2003) etc. The concept of parliamentary privileges has been taken from UK but it is quite incumbent to know that the situation of UK is very different. Firstly in UK Parliament is Sovereign but in India Sovereignty lies in the people of India, In Britain Law can be enacted through simple majority only and there is no as such judicial review but In India Judicial review is the basic structure of the constitution and there are certain laws enacted through special majority and special majority with ratification. Through this research paper Researcher is going to analyse the concept of Parliamentary Privileges of India, UK, Australia and New Zealand.