{"id":311229,"date":"2019-04-12T08:48:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T08:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311229"},"modified":"2019-04-12T08:48:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T08:48:38","slug":"sc-directs-political-parties-to-submit-donation-details-to-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-directs-political-parties-to-submit-donation-details-to-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"SC directs Political Parties to submit donation details to EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Friday directed all political parties to submit in sealed-cover receipts of\u00a0electoral bonds\u00a0and details of identity of donors to the Election Commission (EC) by May 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In an interim order, the apex court asked political parties to furnish names of donors who donated through electoral bonds, amounts received from them along with their bank accounts to the poll panel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The order was passed by a bench comprising Chief Justice of India\u00a0Ranjan Gogoi\u00a0and Justices\u00a0Deepak Gupta and\u00a0Sanjiv Khanna\u00a0in a\u00a0petition filed by Association of Democratic Reforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Attorney General KK Venugopal had told the court that the purpose behind the electoral bonds was to eliminate the use of black money in elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDo not let transparency kill the electoral bond scheme,&#8221; said Venugopal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The petitioner has questioned the validity of various amendments which were brought through Finance Act 2017 and Finance Act 2016 in Reserve Bank of India Act, Representation of the People Act, Income Tax Act, Companies Act and Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday directed all political parties to submit in sealed-cover receipts of\u00a0electoral bonds\u00a0and details of identity of donors to the Election Commission (EC) by May 30. In an interim order, the apex court asked political parties to furnish names of donors who donated through electoral bonds, amounts received from them along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9989,11252,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311230,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311229\/revisions\/311230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}