The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Thursday hailed the verdict of the Supreme Court striking down the electoral bonds scheme and said the "unscrupulous scheme designed to finance the ruling party by anonymous corporate donors" has been completely scrapped
After a five-judge bench of Supreme Court striking down the Electoral Bonds scheme as unconstitutional Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal called SC's decision "a ray of hope for democracy".
Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Thursday that the Supreme Court verdict striking down the Electoral Bonds scheme has allegedly proven that the electoral bonds are a "big scam" of the NDA government.
The Supreme Court on Thursday after striking down the Electoral Bonds Scheme which allowed for anonymous funding to political parties, ordered the State Bank of India (SBI) to stop issuing Electoral Bonds immediately.
After the Supreme Court struck down the Electoral Bonds scheme as unconstitutional, senior advocate Prashant Bhushan said that the petitions filed have been comprehensively allowed by the top court.
The Apex Court ordered banks to forthwith stop issuing Electoral Bonds and that the State Bank of India (SBI) shall furnish the details of Electoral Bonds encashed by the political parties. The court said that SBI should submit the details to the Election Commisison of India and ECI shall
The Supreme Court on Thursday will deliver its verdict on a batch of pleas challenging the legal validity of the Central government's Electoral Bond scheme which allows for anonymous funding to political parties.
The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the transfer of three High Court judges- Calcutta HC's Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya, Kerala HC's Justice Anu Sivaraman and Madhya Pradesh HC's Justice Sujoy Paul from the respective courts to other High Courts.
In the last four years in the jails in West Bengal, around 62 children were born and most of the women prisoners were already pregnant at the time when they were brought to the jails while in some cases, the women prisoners had gone out on parole and returned back expecting the child, the Su
Former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid withdrew his bail plea before the Supreme Court in the North-East Delhi riots in February 2020 on Wednesday.
The Gujarat government on Tuesday moved Supreme Court and filed a review petition seeking to expunge certain remarks made against the government for its conduct with regard to the premature release of the 11 convicts in Bilkis Bano case.