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The electoral bonds data released by the Election Commission of India suggests that Navayuga Engineering Company Private Limited — the company that built the Silkyara Tunnel in Uttarkashi which collapsed on 12 November 2023 — had purchased electoral bonds worth at least Rs 55 crore.
Over 41 construction workers had then got stuck inside the collapsed tunnel, and their rescue had taken over 16 days.
As per the electoral bonds data, which the ECI uploaded on its website on 14 March after a Supreme Court order, the company bought electoral bonds worth Rs 45 crore in 2019, and bonds worth another Rs 10 crore in 2022.
Of this, they had bought the first sum of Rs 30 crore electoral bonds — in 30 individual bonds of Rs 10 crore denomination each — on 18 April 2019.
They had bought these 30 bonds worth Rs 1 crore each on 18 April 2019, shortly before the Lok Sabha Elections in May 2019.