All conscientious citizens of India have overwhelmingly applauded the historic verdict issued by five-member Constitution Bench, of Supreme Court (SC) led by Chief Justice of India(CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud on February 15,2024 struck down the Electoral Bond Scheme(EBS) as flawed and unconstitutional and violative of the right to information under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution. This is in sharp contrast to the claims made seven years ago by then finance minister Arun Jaitley the prime mover of electoral bonds – who termed them as legitimate and transparent. The EBS was introduced in The Finance Bill, 2017 during the Union Budget 2017-18 by then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. They were classified as a Money Bill, and thus bypassed certain parliamentary scrutiny processes which was a violation of Article 110 of Indian constitution. The EBS continues to grip the attention of the nation for the sole reason that EBS has lived up to the old saying, that the taste of the pudding is in the eating. The Supreme Court in its February 15 order also directed the SBI to stop issuing electoral bonds immediately and submit all information of the bonds sold, and the names of all the donors and recipients, to the Election Commission of India (ECI) latest by March 12 and for the latter to upload the entire information in its website by March 15 . The Court also rejected the appeal made by SBI for extension till June 30 and reiterated its February 15 order. The battery of lawyers representing India’s top criminal and constitutional legal minds are arrayed against the Supreme Court constitutional bench over the EBS case. The Supreme Court refused to cow down and has made it clear that EBS is violative of the voter’s right to information under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution.The case began shortly after the amendments were introduced, in September 2017 and January 2018, when two Non-Governmental Organisations- Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Common Cause- and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) filed petitions in the Supreme Court challenging the amendments. The man behind the litigation is 76-year-old war veteran Commodore Lokesh Batra, now a transparency activist. Despite direct threats on his life, Batra’s relentless pursuit of the government’s electoral bond scheme has raised some serious questions which the government refuses to answer till today. At the time of his retirement from service in December 2002, Commodore Batra decided that he would not take up any post-retirement job or join an NGO. Batra is considered as a true hero whose running crusade to ensure transparency in governance since RTI came into being in 2005. His RTI activism has resulted in bringing amendments to the Hindi version of the RTI Act and exposing the irregularities in police investigation in the 2007 Nithari killings that shook the country. It has also helped unearth information regarding expenses incurred during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign visits, the PM CARES Fund, and the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund. The Electronic Indian Postal Orders (e-IPO) that allows Indians living abroad to pay RTI fees is also an outcome of his relentless efforts. The EBS is proving to be another case of washing machine scheme where companies with ED or CBI cases were left off after paying huge donations. Till date there has been a delay tactic to ensure that eventually if at all, full disclosures can be made only after June when Lok Sabha election is over.