NEW DELHI, Oct 5: The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of pleas seeking review of its February 15 verdict scrapping the Narendra Modi government’s election bond scheme ensuring anonymous political funding.
A bench of Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justices Sanjiv Khanna, B R Gavai, J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said there was no error apparent on the face of the record necessitating a review of the judgement.
“Having perused the review petitions, there is no error apparent on the face of the record. No case for review under Order XLVII Rule 1 of the Supreme Court Rules 2013. The review petitions are, therefore, dismissed,” the bench said in its order dated September 25 that was uploaded on Saturday.
The Supreme Court also rejected the prayer for listing the review petitions in an open court. The review plea filed by advocate Mathews J. Nedumpara and others contended that the matter related to the scheme falls in the exclusive province of legislative and executive policy.
(Manas Dasgupta)