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| Supreme Court to hear plea challenging electoral bond scheme for political parties | | | agencies
NEW DELHI, Apr 5: The Supreme Court today agreed to list for hearing a plea challenging laws permitting funding of political parties through the electoral bond scheme. A bench comprising Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli took note of the submissions of lawyer Prashant Bhushan, appearing for PIL petitioner NGO, 'Association for Democratic Reforms', that the issue was "critical" and needed an urgent hearing. "It has been reported today morning that a Calcutta-based company paid ? 40 crores through electoral bonds to ensure that there was no excise raid on it. This distorts democracy," Mr Bhushan said, adding the plea has been mentioned earlier also for urgent listing. Assuring an early listing, the CJI said, "If it was not for Covid...then I would have heard all of this." Earlier, Mr Bhushan had sought an urgent listing of the PIL from the top court on October 4 last year seeking a direction to the Centre not to open any further window for sale of electoral bonds during the pendency of a case pertaining to funding of political parties and alleged lack of transparency in their accounts. The NGO, which had filed the PIL in 2017 on the alleged issue of corruption and subversion of democracy through illicit and foreign funding of political parties and lack of transparency in the accounts of all political parties, had filed an interim application in March this year before the assembly polls in West Bengal and Assam seeking that window for sale of electoral bonds be not reopened.
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