SBI Submits Electoral Bonds Data To Election Commission

The State Bank of India submitted data about electoral bonds to the Election Commission of India on Tuesday evening, in line with a stern order from the Supreme Court. “…Data on electoral bonds has been supplied by State Bank of India to Election Commission of India, today, March 12, 2024,” the poll body said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

The Commission is due to collate the data and make it public on its website no later than 5 p.m. on March 15, as the court had ordered. On Monday, the apex court rejected a plea by SBI to extend the March 6 deadline to release this data. A bench, led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, came down strongly on the bank for “willful disobedience” of orders, and warned it of contempt proceedings if it fa