{"id":34363,"date":"2024-04-24T13:47:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/electoral-bonds-plea-in-sc-seeks-sit-probe-into-alleged-quid-pro-quo-between-parties-corporates\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T13:47:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:47:57","slug":"electoral-bonds-plea-in-sc-seeks-sit-probe-into-alleged-quid-pro-quo-between-parties-corporates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/electoral-bonds-plea-in-sc-seeks-sit-probe-into-alleged-quid-pro-quo-between-parties-corporates\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral bonds: Plea in SC seeks SIT probe into alleged quid pro quo between parties, corporates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-109556065,imgsize-1943932.cms?fit=1200,900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Electoral bonds: Plea in SC seeks SIT probe into alleged quid pro quo between parties, corporates\" title=\"Electoral bonds: Plea in SC seeks SIT probe into alleged quid pro quo between parties, corporates\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"8\">New Delhi: A plea has been filed in the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> seeking a court-monitored probe by an special investigation team (SIT) into the alleged instances of &#8220;apparent quid pro quo&#8221; between <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/political-parties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">political parties<\/a>, <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/corporates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">corporates<\/a> and officials of investigating agencies in donations via electoral bonds. A five-judge constitution bench of the apex court had on February 15 scrapped the Centre&#8217;s <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/electoral-bonds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electoral bonds<\/a> scheme of <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/anonymous-political-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anonymous political funding<\/a>. <br \/><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=107107653potime:1--> Following a Supreme Court directive, the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/state-bank-of-india\/stocks\/companyid-11984.cms\" rel=\"noopener\">State Bank of India<\/a>, which was the authorised seller of electoral bonds, had shared the data with the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/election-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Election Commission<\/a>, which later made the data public. <\/p>\n<p>The electoral bonds scheme, which was notified by the government on January 2, 2018, was pitched as an alternative to cash donations made to political parties as part of its efforts to bring <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/transparency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transparency<\/a> in political funding. <\/p>\n<p>The plea, filed through advocate Prashant Bhushan, has sought a direction to the authorities to investigate the source of funding of &#8220;shell companies and loss-making companies&#8221; to various political parties, as has been disclosed through the electoral bonds data. <\/p>\n<p>It has also sought a direction to the authorities to recover the amounts from political parties as donated by companies to them as part of &#8220;quid pro quo arrangements where these are found to be proceeds of crime&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/electoral-bonds-plea-in-sc-seeks-sit-probe-into-alleged-quid-pro-quo-between-parties-corporates\/articleshow\/109556065.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored probe by an special investigation team (SIT) into the alleged instances of &#8220;apparent quid pro quo&#8221; between political parties, corporates and officials of investigating agencies in donations via electoral bonds. A five-judge constitution bench of the apex court had on February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-109556065,imgsize-1943932.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[494,37853,1841,29652,1740,1588,1838,1998,5851,1833,4642,322,37854,37855,7208,5113,315,37852,3557,1617,2766],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34365,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34363\/revisions\/34365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}