Overview
- The bench of CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice N.V. Anjaria disposed of the plea after calling the petitioner’s suggestions worth consideration.
- The Court directed the Election Commission to circulate the proposals to its committees for possible inclusion in standard operating procedures and to accept further representations.
- No judicial order changed spending caps or imposed new curbs, with the justices leaving policy decisions to the Commission.
- The Election Commission, through counsel Dama Seshadri Naidu, outlined existing oversight tools such as expenditure observers, accounting teams and call centres, and said it would review the suggestions.
- Petitioner Prabhakar Deshpande alleged 2024 campaign spending vastly exceeded caps, but the Court declined to rely on contested third‑party reports as a basis for intervention.