New Delhi, 17 September (H.S.): The issue of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Delhi has also reached the Supreme Court. During mentioning before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Thursday, advocate Prashant Bhushan submitted that the names of 47 lakh voters had already been excluded from the draft electoral roll during the SIR exercise in Delhi. He further said the Election Commission had now issued notices to 33 lakh people on grounds of “logical discrepancies.” Bhushan said the entire process was unclear. The court said the petition would be heard on September 21, when other SIR-related matters are already listed.

During the mentioning, Prashant Bhushan said the Election Commission had not disclosed the basis on which voters’ names had been deleted from the electoral roll, despite the requirement to make such information available on the Commission’s website. He said some people had received notices while others had not.

Bhushan further submitted that the notices did not specify why the recipients had been summoned. He said voters were also not being informed about how their names had been categorised under “logical discrepancies.” According to Bhushan, the entire process lacked transparency and clarity.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar