India, Aug. 28 -- The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on August 31 a plea which has challenged the validity of a provision of the Income Tax Act that allows political parties to receive cash donations below Rs 2,000.

According to the apex court's cause list of August 31, the plea would come up for hearing before a bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta.

On November 24 last year, the top court had agreed to hear the petition and sought responses from the Centre and others on it.

The plea claimed that lack of transparency undermines the purity of the election process as it deprives voters of the crucial knowledge about the source of political funding, including the donors and their motives, preventing them from making...