# Supreme Court strikes down the electoral-bonds scheme Date: 2024 ## The fact On 15 February 2024 a Constitution Bench of the [Supreme Court of India](/organizations/supreme-court-of-india) struck down the Electoral Bond Scheme and related statutory amendments as unconstitutional, ordering disclosure of donors and amounts. [Modi](/people/narendra-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. ## Evidence and sources Supreme Court of India carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [institutional corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption) and [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed constitutional striking-down is a dated accountability finding about an opacity scheme. ## What is established and what is not 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. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. 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. Supreme Court strikes down the electoral-bonds scheme on 2024-02-15 is not a licence to treat every later Supreme Court of India communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Supreme Court strikes down the electoral-bonds scheme into a personality. 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. ## People - Narendra Modi: https://factrail.ai/people/narendra-modi ## Drivers - Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-supreme-court-strikes-down-electoral-bonds-scheme-2024-02-15/ - https://main.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2017/24661/24661_2017_1_1501_50836_Judgement_15-Feb-2024.pdf ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/in-electoral-bonds-sc-struck-2024