After three days of hearing the constitutionality of the 2018 electoral bond scheme, the Supreme Court has reserved its judgment while directing the Election Commission of India to produce data on the quantum of electoral bonds purchased till September 30 this year.
https://thewire.in/law/electoral-bonds-sc-questions-anonymity-of-electoral-bonds-and-voters-right-to-information by Gursimran K. Bakshi
Mehta’s argument focused on three issues: How the 2018 electoral bond scheme was a “deliberate attempt” to ensure that the funding received by political parties is clean money; how the government curbed unclean money from the market through de-registration of shell companies that were used as a vehicle of political funding and lastly, maintaining the confidentiality of the donor.
A Supreme Court Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dr D.Y. Chandrachud and also comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, B.R. Gavai, J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra are seized of the matter which senior advocate Prashant Bhushan characterised as one that “goes to the very root of our democracy” on Day 1 of the hearings.
03/11/2023