The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on March 21 regarding the practice of political parties promising f...

Terming social security a top priority of his government, Gehlot questioned that when the prime minister launches such schemes, they are no...

The power of Election Commission to fight freebies has remained vague and limited. There have only been a few instances where the EC exerci...

Observing that issues raised before it require an "extensive" hearing, the top court said though all promises cannot be equated with freebi...

The writ petition filed by the Association of Power Producers (APP) sought the court's intervention "in the financially crippling crisis fa...

With committees, commentators and economists of all shades slamming freebies, and political actors continuing to snipe at each other, it is...

The debate has splintered India's political parties with some siding with the BJP while others coming out against the government. PM Modi's...

Petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay filed additional submissions on Friday in the top court saying that registered political parties be asked to fu...

“We will never be able to define what a freebie is and what a freebie is not. That has to be decided between the electorate and the politic...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said irrational freebies offered to induce voters during elections would not be effectively debated in the P...

The Supreme Court said pharma companies cannot claim tax exemption against freebies handed out to doctors as it is not allowed under curren...

A three-judge bench, led by CJI NV Ramana, while hearing a plea by BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay to restrain parties from distributing any su...

The court also issued notice to the Centre and asked both the government and ECI to file their response within eight weeks.

The advocate cited a supreme court judgment dated July 5, 2013 and said announcements made with regard to freebies by DMK and AIADMK are ag...

Major political parties barring the Bahujan Samaj Party opposed any restriction on them in announcing freebies in election manifestos.

The Election Commission will convene a meeting of political parties next month to formulate its opinion on the proposed guidelines on poll ...

The court directed the Election Commission to consult political parties and incorporate new clauses into its existing non-binding model cod...