Issuing the order on a PIL by the Association for Democratic Reforms, the High Court said, “We have no hesitation in arriving at the view that prima facie the acts of the respondents (BJP and Congress) inter-se, as highlighted in the present petition, clearly fall foul of the ban imposed under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976, as the donations accepted by the political parties from Sterlite and Sesa accrue from ‘foreign sources’ within the meaning of law.” In its response, the government had earlier submitted that as an Indian citizen owned Vedanta, donations by the firm and its subsidiaries would not be as that by “foreign companies.”
Posted on: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:26:57 +0000
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