J Datta: your submission is that not only the five... ... Challenge To Election Commissioners' Law: Live Updates From Supreme Court

J Datta: your submission is that not only the five judge bench stressed on need for a law under Article 324 but it also gave the reasons for why it should be free of executive control?

Parikh: because it will ultimately bear on the constitutional principles and also the fundamental rights under article 14 and 19. So the interpretation was based on how constitutional principles and fundamental rights are going to be affected if there is no independent Election Commission