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Supreme Court strikes down the electoral-bonds scheme

On 15 February 2024 a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India struck down the Electoral Bond Scheme and related statutory amendments as unconstitutional, ordering disclosure of donors and amounts. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

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On 15 February 2024 a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India struck down the Electoral Bond Scheme and related statutory amendments as unconstitutional, ordering disclosure of donors and amounts. Modi did not write the slip.

Context

The Court authored the judgment. The Union had defended the scheme. SBI later disclosed data under the order. A striking-down is not a criminal conviction of the prime minister. It is a dated finding that the scheme he owned failed constitutional tests.

The 2 January 2018 notification is the neighbouring earlier scheme. Later SBI disclosures are neighbouring later compliance events.

The Prime Minister of India is head of the Union Council of Ministers. Parliament writes statutes; the President assents; states and Union ministries implement; the Supreme Court can strike a scheme down. A prime minister can announce demonetisation, drive a bill, and take an oath. He does not write a UNFCCC depositary record, an ISRO telemetry file, or a Supreme Court judgment by himself.

Why it matters

The path is institutional corruption and democratic resilience: a completed constitutional striking-down is a dated accountability finding about an opacity scheme.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Narendra Modi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.6 · verified

    Complex: the Court authored the judgment. The scheme was his government’s. A striking-down is not a conviction.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactSupreme Court strikes down the electoral-bonds scheme
    2. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
    3. strengthensIndicators (3)Political corruption index
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 15 February 2024 · verified

    A completed constitutional striking-down records that the Union’s anonymous-donation channel failed basic transparency tests.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — India Supreme Court strikes down electoral bonds schemeReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Supreme Court of India — Association for Democratic Reforms v. Union of India, 15 February 2024Supreme Court of India · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Supreme Court of India carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: a 15 February 2024 Supreme Court judgment striking down the electoral-bonds scheme and ordering disclosure.

Not established: a criminal conviction of the prime minister, or a unique later election-result coefficient from the PDF.

The scheme was his government’s. A striking-down is not a conviction.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Supreme Court strikes down the electoral-bonds scheme, not a later speech about Supreme Court strikes down the electoral-bonds scheme.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Complex: the Court authored the judgment. The scheme was his government’s. A striking-down is not a conviction. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, the President, the Reserve Bank, state governments, the Election Commission, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A Supreme Court striking-down is not a criminal conviction. A scheme notification is not a unique rupee coefficient. A UN pledge is not a delivered emissions path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorNarendra Modi
  2. contributed toFactSupreme Court strikes down the electoral-bonds scheme
  3. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). Supreme Court strikes down the electoral-bonds scheme. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/in-electoral-bonds-sc-struck-2024

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Accessed 15 October 2026.

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