The Delhi High Court has today directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to file a compliance report within 6 weeks on its 2014 judgment.The Court passed this order while hearing the contempt petition filed by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) against the Home Secretary alleging wilful disobedience of court orders..In March 2014, the Delhi High Court had delivered a judgment in a public interest litigation filed by ADR contending that there is a blatant violation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976 on part of the political parties in India..The Division Bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Jayant Nath had held,.“We have no hesitation in arriving at the view that prima-facie, the acts of the respondents (political parties), as highlighted in the present petition, clearly fall foul of the ban imposed under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976.”.The Court had directed the Centre to relook and reappraise the receipts of the political parties and identify foreign contributions received by foreign sources and take action as contemplated by law within six months..ADR in its contempt petition against the Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi stated that despite the aforesaid order as well as dismissal of the Special Leave Petitions, the respondent (Centre) has not taken any steps to comply with the order..Directing the MHA to file the compliance report, the Single Judge Bench of Justice A K Chawla asked as to why no action has been taken against the erring political parties..“This delay is unjustified“, he said..Appearing for the Ministry, Standing Counsel Monika Arora submitted that the political parties had been issued notice to submit records regarding the donations received by them. However, since the records are voluminous, more time is needed to analyse them..The matter will be next heard on December 5.
The Delhi High Court has today directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to file a compliance report within 6 weeks on its 2014 judgment.The Court passed this order while hearing the contempt petition filed by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) against the Home Secretary alleging wilful disobedience of court orders..In March 2014, the Delhi High Court had delivered a judgment in a public interest litigation filed by ADR contending that there is a blatant violation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976 on part of the political parties in India..The Division Bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Jayant Nath had held,.“We have no hesitation in arriving at the view that prima-facie, the acts of the respondents (political parties), as highlighted in the present petition, clearly fall foul of the ban imposed under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976.”.The Court had directed the Centre to relook and reappraise the receipts of the political parties and identify foreign contributions received by foreign sources and take action as contemplated by law within six months..ADR in its contempt petition against the Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi stated that despite the aforesaid order as well as dismissal of the Special Leave Petitions, the respondent (Centre) has not taken any steps to comply with the order..Directing the MHA to file the compliance report, the Single Judge Bench of Justice A K Chawla asked as to why no action has been taken against the erring political parties..“This delay is unjustified“, he said..Appearing for the Ministry, Standing Counsel Monika Arora submitted that the political parties had been issued notice to submit records regarding the donations received by them. However, since the records are voluminous, more time is needed to analyse them..The matter will be next heard on December 5.
