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Citizens don’t have right to know funding of political parties: Union govt on electoral bonds The Union Government has said that citizens do not have the right to know the funding of a political party. The stand was made clear in court through a statement filed by Attorney General R Venkataramani before the Supreme Court. A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud will hear petitions challenging the constitutional validity of anonymous electoral bonds ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked that the Delhi government cannot sue or be sued through its elected ministers.The oral observation was made by a bench comprising Justices S.K. Kaul, Sudhanshu Dhulia and Prashant Kumar Mishra as it heard a ...

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A bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud began hearing the batch of pleas challenging the legal validity of the controversial scheme today.

Attorney General for India, R Venkataramani, in a statement filed before the Supreme Court in the electoral bonds case, has submitted that the citizens do not have the right to information under...

This development comes just a day before when a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court will hear batch of pleas challenging the validity of the electoral bond scheme for political funding of parties.

Attorney General for India R Venkataramani has told the Supreme Court that citizens do not have the right to know about the funding of political parties, in written submission filed in the challenge to electoral bonds.

The Supreme Court on Monday (October 30) directed the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker to decide the disqualification petitions filed in relation to Shiv Sena rift and the Nationalist Congress...

Attorney General R. Venkataramani has told the Supreme Court that the electoral bonds scheme floated by the Centre does not impinge upon any existing right of any person and cannot be said to be repugnant to any fundamental rights contained ...

What concerns have petitioners raised against electoral bonds? What has the court said about them earlier?