Indira Gandhi's Win To Chandigarh Mayor Polls: How Judiciary Stepped In To Uphold Sanctity Of Elections

Supreme Court verdicts of scrapping the Electoral Bond Scheme and overturning the results of Chandigarh Mayoral Polls are landmark judgments, but not one-off instances. Read about more such cases

Over the years, the Supreme Court and various High Courts have passed several judgments that have shaped the electoral process in India.

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The recent verdict by the Supreme Court in Chandigarh Mayor Elections and Electoral Bonds Scheme shows the role and importance of the third pillar of Democracy in ensuring the sanctity of electoral process and checking the role of money and muscle power in elections in India. The Supreme Court verdicts of scrapping the Electoral Bond Scheme and overturning the results of Chandigarh Mayoral elections are landmark judgments, but are not isolated or one-off instances. Judicial review has played an