Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, CJI A. Background ................................................................................................... 4 i.

Corporate Contributions ........................................................................... 5 ii.

Curbing black money .............................................................................. 10 iii. Transparency ........................................................................................... 11 iv. Objections of RBI and ECI to the Electoral Bond Scheme .................. 13 v.

Electoral Bond Scheme .......................................................................... 18 B. Issues ........................................................................................................... 23 C. Submissions ................................................................................................ 24 i.

Submissions of petitioners .................................................................... 24 ii.

Submissions of Union of India ............................................................... 36 D. The Scope of Judicial Review ............................................................