The judgment will be delivered by a bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.
As Finance Secretary, Subhash Chandra Garg has worked with three finance ministers Arun Jaitley, Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman. Between mid-2017 and mid-2019, he presided over the implementation of big moves like demonetisation, electoral bonds and GST.
The direction follows a Supreme Court order to the Election Commission to produce updated data, till September 30, 2023, on contributions received by political parties through the electoral bonds scheme.
A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India is hearing the batch of petitions challenging the legal validity of the electoral bonds scheme, which facilitates anonymous donations to political parties.
The exchange began when SG Mehta presented a hypothetical scenario in which a person donating to the Congress party wouldn't want the BJP to discover this fact.