Key Points
"The infringement of the right to information (RTI) is not justified," Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said on Thursday as the Supreme Court scrapped the electoral bonds scheme, which facilitated anonymous funding of political parties...
In a unanimous verdict, a Constitution bench of the Supreme Court said the electoral bonds scheme, due to its anonymous nature, was violative of the right to information and thus affected free speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution...
The remarks by the Supreme Court addressed a major demand of the petitioners -- that electoral bonds allow donors and political parties to keep their association hidden from the public and thereby from the purview of the Right to Information Act...
So far, since the details of donors are exempt from RTI, political parties have only provided the total amount of donations received through electoral bonds every financial year in their account statements to the Election Commission...
Significantly, the Supreme Court has asked the SBI to furnish to the Election Commission of India the details of donations through electoral bonds, donors and the political parties that received the contributions..
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