SC angry over not giving complete information about electoral bonds, orders SBI to reply by Monday – Dainik Savera Times

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up State Bank of India (SBI) for not disclosing complete details, including unique alpha numeric numbers, of electoral bonds (which the Election Commission has to upload on its website) and issued a notice to it seeking its reply by Monday. Instructed to file. A Constitution bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Justice BR Gavai, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Mishra issued notice to SBI, saying the court was informed that the bank issuing the electoral bonds had The unique alpha numeric number of has not been disclosed.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal argued before the top court that all details had to be disclosed as per the Constitution Bench judgment of February 15, 2024. On this, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said that since SBI is a party to the decision, notice can be issued to it. The bench said that SBI’s lawyer should have been here. “If you look at the judgment, you will find that we have specified that the bond number has to be provided,” the bench said. Advocate Prashant Bhushan appeared for the main petitioner NGO Association for Democratic Reforms.

On an application by the Election Commission, the bench said that the details of the electoral bonds submitted by the Election Commission before the apex court should be scanned and returned for the purpose of uploading it on the website. The Election Commission filed a petition in the apex court through advocate Amit Sharma seeking direction to release the data on electoral bonds submitted to the apex court in terms of its previous orders dated April 12, 2019 and November 2, 2023. As per the apex court’s order dated March 11, 2024, the Election Commission had on Thursday uploaded the data on the electoral bonds given to it by SBI.