Delhi SIR: SC to hear plea against voter name deletions on Sep 21

The court will hear the matter on September 21 after the petitioner alleged that details of 3.3 million notices and grounds for deletion among 4.7 million names had not been disclosed

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on September 21 a plea against deletion of names from the electoral roll under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Delhi.

A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana said it will hear the matter on Monday as other matters related to SIR exercises are also listed next week.

Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the petitioner, submitted that out of the 4.7 million people whose names have been deleted from the electoral roll in Delhi, the poll panel has issued notice to 3.3 million people.

"What they have done is that they have not disclosed the names of people who have been issued notices or on what grounds they have been deleted. They have not disclosed which people notice has been issued to. What are the logical discrepancies and how are they unmapped," Bhushan submitted.

On August 31, the Election Commission published a draft electoral roll under which 4.7 million voters were deleted from the list of 1.45 crore total voters.

Around one in three voters in Delhi were removed from the draft electoral roll published as part of the Special Intensive Revision of the voter list.

The poll panel had said over 4.332 million were found to have shifted or were absent during the SIR, over 282,000 voters were found to be deceased, while over 141,000 were enrolled at multiple places.

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