India, Sept. 3 -- The Eknath Shinde-led faction told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the organisational structure established by Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray to prevent the concentration of power in the hands of the party chief and make it more "democratic" was significantly altered by Uddhav Thackeray in 2018.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana was told by senior advocate Neeraj Kishan Kaul, appearing for the Shinde-led faction, that the party constitution was submitted to the Election Commission in 1999 after the poll body directed all political parties to place their constitutions on record.

After the demise of Balasaheb Thackeray, the party proceeded to fundamentally al...