The State Bank of India (SBI) has failed to share the details of the electoral bonds encashed by political parties with the Election Commission of India (ECI) till Wednesday, the deadline set by the Supreme Court.
The State Bank of India (SBI) had on Monday moved the top court seeking an extension of time till June 30 to disclose details of each electoral bond encashed to date, PTI reported.
The SBI’s plea has not been listed for hearing by the apex court so far.
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Last month, a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud had struck down the electoral bonds scheme and directed the SBI to disclose details of each electoral bond encashed by the political parties.
The information should include the date of encashment and the denomination of the bonds and be submitted to the poll panel by March 6.
The bench had also said that the Election Commission (EC) should publish the information shared by the SBI on its official website by March 13.
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In its application before the apex court, the SBI had contended that retrieval of information from “each silo” and the procedure of matching the information of one silo to that of the other would be a time-consuming exercise.
(With inputs from PTI)