Press Release- Mangalore Aug 09: Blood Help Line Karnataka (R) has achieved a new milestone by collecting a whopping 603 units of blood through a mega Blood donation campaign, that was conducted at a time in 21 different blood banks situated in the various cities of Karnataka State, as a part of it's 5th anniversary campaign.
In spite of undeclared curfew kind of situation seen across the state due to possible third wave of Covid-19, and Nationwide immunisation programme, Blood Helpline Karnataka took a bold step to organise a large Blood Donation Campaign across the state, to reduce the scarcity of blood units in the blood banks.
The campaign was conducted in association with 21 different blood banks spread across various cities of Karnataka State as mentioned below, to mark the 5th anniversary of Blood Helpline Karnataka organisation.
55 units of blood in Lion's blood bank at Hennur and JP Nagar, 20 units at Mysore Lion's Jeevadhaara blood bank, 11 units at Madikeri District hospital blood bank in association With Kodagu blood donors, 24 units at Hassan blood bank, 50 units at Rotary Campco blood bank Puttur, 15 units in association With blood donors helpline at Alvas hospital blood bank Moodabidri, 25 units at KMC blood bank Manipal, 104 units in association With Sauharda friends ammunje at Yenepoya hospital blood bank Mangaluru, 36 units at KS Hegde hospital blood bank, 30 units at Kanachuru hospital blood bank, 60 units of blood at Indian red cross society blood bank, 13 units at AJ hospital blood bank, 26 units at Wenlock district hospital blood bank, 43 units at KMC hospital blood bank in association with MOM group, 32 units at Father muller's hospital blood Bank, 21 units at Tejasvini hospital blood bank, 7 units at Shrinivas hospital blood bank, 10 units at Dr. Gowder's blood bank Bijapur, 14 units at Raichur blood bank and 7 units of blood at Indian red cross society Kundapur were collected from the donors.
Organisers of the mega Blood donation campaign and Team Blood Helpline Karnataka (R) have expressed deep gratitude and are grateful to the donor's for voluntarily coming forward to donate the precious blood amid fear of Covid-19, Staff members of various blood banks, and office bearers and members of various organisations for their cooperation, representatives from the media, and to all those who have contributed directly and indirectly to make the Blood Donation Campaign-2021 a massive success.
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New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea seeking the review of its decision rejecting the petitions for confiscating Rs 16,518 crore received by political parties under the 2018 electoral bond scheme.
A bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra dismissed the review plea filed by one Khem Singh Bhati against the top court's decision of August 2, 2024.
The apex court had then rejected the petition seeking confiscation of money received under the scheme.
The bench on March 26 held, "The review petition is dismissed in terms of the signed order. Pending application(s), if any, shall stand disposed of."
The top court's order, made available recently, also refused to accept Bhati's prayer for an open-court hearing in the matter.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by former CJI D Y Chandrachud on February 15 last year scrapped the electoral bonds scheme of anonymous political funding introduced by the BJP government.
Following the top court's judgement, the State Bank of India, the authorised financial institution under the scheme, shared the data with the election commission which made it public.
The electoral bonds scheme, which was notified by the government on January 2, 2018, was pitched as an alternative to cash donations made to political parties as part of its efforts to bring in transparency in political funding.
The top court, on August 2 last year, rejected a batch of pleas including the one filed by Bhati for a court-monitored probe into the electoral bonds scheme and observed it couldn't order a roving inquiry.
The review plea, filed through advocate Jayesh K Unnikrishnan and settled by senior advocate Vijay Hansaria, said on February 15, 2024 the apex court in Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) v. Union of India held the scheme unconstitutional for violating Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution.
"The effect of declaring the electoral bond scheme and the various statutory provisions as unconstitutional is that the said scheme never existed and is void ab-initio and it is a settled position of law that the court only finds law and it does not make law," it argued.
The verdict in the ADR case, the plea said, rendered the EBS void since inception, and therefore, the subsequent pleas seeking confiscation of the amount collected by political parties could not have been dismissed.
"In the absence of any declaration by this court in the ADR case that the judgement would apply prospectively, the existence of the electoral bond scheme on the date of purchase could not have been the basis for dismissal of the present writ petition. The scheme stood wiped out for all purposes from the date of inception and the necessary consequences must follow,” it added.
The plea said the previous bench's reliance on the existence of parliamentary legislation permitting electoral bonds to dismiss the writ petition constituted an "apparent error on the face of the record".
The ADR judgment did not declare its findings to be prospective, which means the statutory framework supporting electoral bonds should have been treated as invalid from the outset, it contended.
The applicant claimed the verdict had a retrospective effect, rendering the scheme null and void since its inception.
The review plea claimed the August 2, 2024 verdict "indirectly modified the ADR judgment".
The plea said evidence disclosed under court directions indicated a quid pro quo between donations made through the scheme and the benefits received by corporate donors, contradicting the bench's conclusion on the claims being speculative.
"Disclosure of information regarding electoral bonds in terms of the direction of this court clearly establish that there was quid pro quo between the donations made to the political parties and benefits received by the corporate houses and the observation...that the writ petition is based on assumption about quid pro quo between the donor and donee and the petitioner is seeking a roving inquiry, suffers from apparent error," it added.