ECI’s Request To Refund Sealed Cover Boxes, The Supreme Court’s Constitution Bench will hear the case on electoral bonds tomorrow.

ECI’s Request To Refund Sealed Cover Boxes, The Supreme Court’s Constitution Bench will hear the case on electoral bonds tomorrow.

ECI’s Request To Refund Sealed Cover Boxes, Tomorrow at 10.30 AM, the Election Commission of India’s plea will be heard by the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, which rendered a decision in the Electoral Bonds issue. The Supreme Court ordered the State Bank of India to provide the ECI with the electoral bonds data by March 12 and also directed the ECI to upload the information about political parties’ funding through the bonds on March 11. The information was submitted in sealed covers to the Supreme Court in accordance with interim orders dated April 12, 2019, and November 2, 2023.

The ECI claimed in the application that, in order to preserve secrecy, it has not kept any copies of such materials. As a result, in accordance with the court’s March 11 ruling, the ECI has asked the Supreme Court to return the sealed cover documents so that it may post them online. The ECI emphasized that the Court noted in the ruling dated March 11 that “Copies of the statements which were filed by the ECI before this Court would be maintained in the Office of the ECI”. The ECI requests that the aforementioned observation in the order be modified, stating that it has not kept any copies of the papers.

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The request was made to “rectify/modify the aforementioned portion of the Order dated 11.03.2024 passed by this Hon’ble Court in Miscellaneous Application No. 486 of 2024 [in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 880 of 2017] and to return the aforementioned documents/data/information so submitted by the Election Commission of India before this Hon’ble Court in sealed covers/boxes, so that the Election Commission of India can comply with the directions passed by this Hon’ble Court, as contained in the Order dated 11.03.2024,” the plea read.

It is worth mentioning that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has released papers pertaining to voter data and bond encashment by political parties that it obtained from the State Bank of India on its website today.

by,HHM