New Delhi:
After being rapped by the Supreme Court, the State Bank of India has submitted all the details on electoral bonds to the Election Commission. The data includes the all-important unique numbers for the bonds, which will help match the donors with the political parties that were the recipients.
The SBI submitted an affidavit of compliance to the Supreme Court on Thursday. One of the points of the affidavit reads, “It is respectfully submitted that SBI has now disclosed all details and that no details [other than complete account numbers & KYC details] have been withheld from disclosure.”
The details given by the bank are expected to be uploaded by the Election Commission on its website shortly.
The SBI had earlier given two lists to the Election Commission, which were released by the poll panel on its website on March 14. The first had the names of the donors, the denominations of the bonds, and the dates on which they were purchased. The other had names of the political parties as well as the denominations of the bonds and the dates on which they were encashed.
Without the unique numbers, however, there was no way of linking the lists and finding out which donor had given money to which party.
