SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO STAY FRESH SALE OF ELECTORAL BONDS https://thewire.in/law/supreme-court-refuses-stay-fresh-sale-electoral-bonds-adr
During the hearing, the Election Commission of India told the court that it was opposed to a stay on the sale of bonds. “The issue of transparency can be considered at the final argument stage, and there should be no interim stay,” ECI counsel and senior lawyers Rakesh Dwivedi told the Supreme Court.
Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for ADR, said that the anonymous bonds “legalised corruption,” raising the objections that the Reserve Bank of India and the Election Commission put forward when the Centre was mulling their implementation.
"Electoral Bonds: A case of collective institutional complicity?"
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the focus points of the panel discussion:
1. Institutional paralysis and Electoral Bond Scheme, 2018
2. Judicial intervention and electoral bonds case
3. Are the opposition parties really opposed to the Electoral Bond Scheme?
4. Role of RTI in obtaining the information on Electoral Bonds
Moderator: Maj Gen Anil Verma (Retd.) (Head of Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) & National Election Watch)
Speakers:
1. Prof Jagdeep Chhokar (Founder Member & Trustee of ADR)
2. Mr Gautam Bhatia (Lawyer, Author & Constitutional Expert)
3. Mr Vihar Durve (RTI Activist)
4. Mr Nitin Sethi (Journalist, Member of The Reporters' Collective, Media Lead at The National Foundation for India & Partner at Land Conflict Watch)