A petition was filed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday for constituting a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate each instance of quid pro quo, corruption, and kickbacks that had been revealed through the disclosure of details on electoral bonds.
The petition, filed by Common Cause and the Centre for Public Interest Litigation, represented by advocate Prashant Bhushan and Cheryl D’Souza, said some of the country’s main investigative agencies, including the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED), and the Income Tax (I-T) Department “appear to have become accessories to corruption”.
Several firms that were under investigation by these agencies had donated large sums of money to the ruling party, potentially to influence the outcomes of the probes, the petition said.
