Supreme Court To Hear Challenges To Electoral Bond Scheme Next Month
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"This is a 2015 matter. You can't have such an emergency just before the penultimate day of the vacation...There is no election as of now. We will hear it in the last week of January, 2023," the bench said.
The Supreme Court today said it will hear in the last week of January a batch of petitions challenging laws permitting funding of political parties through the electoral bond scheme.
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Vikram Nath said the matter requires to heard.
"This is a 2015 matter. You can't have such an emergency just before the penultimate day of the vacation...There is no election as of now. We will hear it in the last week of January, 2023," the bench said.
Lawyer Prashant Bhushan, appearing for PIL petitioner NGO, 'Association for Democratic Reforms', said there are several constitutional questions involved in the petitions which have a tremendous bearing on sanctity of electoral process.
