D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, SANJIV KHANNA, B. R. GAVAI, J. B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA
Association for Democratic Reforms – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
DHANANJAYA Y. CHANDRACHUD, CJI.
| A. | Background |
| i. | Corporate Contributions |
| ii. | Curbing black money |
| iii. | Transparency |
| iv. | Objections of RBI and ECI to the Electoral Bond Scheme |
| v. | Electoral Bond Scheme |
| B. | Issues |
| C. | Submissions |
| i. | Submissions of petitioners |
| ii. | Submissions of Union of India |
| D. | The Scope of Judicial Review |
| E. | The close association of politics and money |
| F. | The challenge to non-disclosure of information on electoral financing |
| i. | Infringement of the right to information of the voter |
| a. | The scope of Article 19(1)(a): tracing the right to information |
| b. | Right to information of a voter: exploring the judgments in ADR and PUCL |
| c. | The focal point of the electoral process: candidate or political party |
| d. | The essentiality of information about political funding for the effective exercise of the choice of voting |
| ii. | Whether the infringement of the right to information of the voter is justified |
| a. | Curbing Black money |
| b. | Donor Privacy |
| I. | Informational privacy of financial contributions to political parties |
| II. | P |
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