New Delhi: The SBI (State Bank of India) on Thursday filed a detailed compliance affidavit in the Supreme Court and said that it submitted all the details of electoral bonds with serial numbers to the ECI on Thursday.
“On March 21, we have provided/disclosed all the details of the electoral bonds which are in our possession and custody to the Election Commission of India,” the SBI said, in a copy accessed by The New Indian Express.
It said that the prefix and the bond number is the alphanumeric number.
Keeping in view the security of the account holders (cyber security), the complete bank account numbers and KYC details of the political parties are not being made public, the SBI said in its affidavit filed before the apex court.
Similarly, KYC details of purchasers are also not being made public for security reasons, apart from the fact that such information is not fed/collated in the system.
However, they are not necessary for identifying the political parties, the SBI further told the apex court.
The SBI said that it revealed information [alongwith that already disclosed] which will show, the name of the purchaser of the bond, the denomination and specific number of the bond.
It also said that the name of the party that has encashed the bond, and also last four digits of the bank account number of political parties had been disclosed.
