Five SIR-deleted voters have asked the Supreme Court to expedite their pending appeals before the Appellate Tribunals so they can vote in the Kolkata and Howrah municipal elections in November, and to order an SIT into the SIR decision-making. The claims are the applicants’ own; no hearing or order has been reported.
The Bombay High Court has declined an oral prayer for an interim stay on deletions of voters’ names in a public interest petition highlighting flaws in the implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Maharashtra, saying it will follow judicial propriety and let the Supreme Court hear the matter first. Mumbai: The Bombay High […]
Former Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman has said the Election Commission cannot function as it has during the Special Intensive Revision, called government control over the appointment of Election Commissioners a red flag, and urged the Supreme Court to decide the challenge to the 2023 CEC Act at the earliest.
The Bombay High Court at Goa has asked the Election Commission why its software rejects Form 8 address-change applications outright during the Special Intensive Revision, on a plea by the Salgaonkar family whose names were dropped from the draft roll. The ECI says the family never filed enumeration forms and had a remedy under Form 6.
The Lawyers’ Association for Constitution has constituted a five-member commission of former judges chaired by Justice Madan B. Lokur to examine the constitutional validity, methodology and impact of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, with public hearings planned and a report targeted for December 2026.
