A special sitting by a five-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud is scheduled on March 11 to hear an application filed by the State Bank of India (SBI) seeking time till June 30 to share details of electoral bonds purchased anonymously and encashed by political parties since April 2019.
A contempt petition filed by the Association for Democratic Reforms against the SBI is also listed along with the application before the Bench on March 11.
The Bench, also comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, B.R. Gavai, J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, is the same which struck down the electoral bonds scheme as unconstitutional in a unanimous verdict on February 15.
