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    Supreme Court: SIR-Deleted Voters Seek Quick Decision On Appeals Before Kolkata, Howrah Municipal Elections

    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.

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    Former Supreme Court Judge Abhay Oka Finds No Impropriety In Justice Bhuyan’s Remarks On Mass Disenfranchisement

    Former Supreme Court judge Justice Abhay Oka has said there is no impropriety in Justice Bhuyan’s remarks on mass disenfranchisement, since a judge may speak on national issues as a citizen so long as he does not comment on a pending case or order. New Delhi: Former Supreme Court judge Justice Abhay S. Oka has […]

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    Calcutta High Court dismisses Congress plea over alleged age discrepancy in BJP Nandigram bypoll candidate Hasirani Rath's election affidavit
    Justice Krishna Rao dismissed the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee's plea questioning alleged discrepancies in BJP candidate Hasirani Rath's election affidavit ahead of the October 6 Nandigram bypoll.
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    Calcutta High Court Questions Bilaspur FRO’s Move To Decide Citizenship During Pendency Of SIR Appeals

    The Calcutta High Court has questioned the Bilaspur Foreigners Registration Officer over a move to decide the citizenship of four Murshidabad men, detained on untested suspicion of being illegal immigrants, while their SIR appeals are pending before the appellate tribunal.

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    Justice Bhuyan's SIR Remarks Were Out Of Line. The Election Commission's Conduct Is Worse
    Justice Bhuyan's SIR Remarks Were Out Of Line. The Election Commission's Conduct Is Worse
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    Justice Bhuyan’s SIR Remarks Were Out Of Line. The Election Commission’s Conduct Is Worse

    A sitting Supreme Court judge should not have delivered a verdict from a moot court podium on a matter listed before his own Court the next morning. That does not make what he said wrong, and the Commission has spent a week proving it.

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    Bombay High Court, which held that an arrested person must be produced before the nearest Magistrate and ordered release for violation of Article 22(2)
    Bombay High Court holds production within 24 hours before a distant Magistrate does not cure failure to produce before the nearest Magistrate
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    Bombay High Court Declines Interim Stay In SIR Plea, Says Let Supreme Court Hear First

    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 […]

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