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Informist, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026

 

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court Tuesday issued a notice to the Election Commission of India and the Chief Elector Officer, Delhi, on a petition alleging discrepancies in the conduct of special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Delhi, including removal of lakhs of voters from the draft rolls for nebulous reasons. The apex court asked the poll panel to give a status report on the steps taken for the efficient conduct of special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Delhi.

 

The top court said it seemed that notices by the poll panel were being given to the people almost mechanically, as if they were computer-generated. It said the Election Commission of India needs to clarify logical discrepancies in issuing notice to the people.  

 

A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said that a little orientation is required in conducting this process in Delhi. The poll panel could prepare a standard response to the same types of queries and objections. In Delhi, the problem would be unique, said Chief Justice Kant, adding that the vast population would be of original Delhiites, but there would be cases like judges who were migrant workers here. 

 

The apex court was hearing a petition by activists Anjali Bhardwaj and Amriti Johri. The petitioners alleged that more than 4.7 million names had been removed as per draft rolls in Delhi and the Election Commission of India was preparing to issue notices to 3.3 million people on grounds of logical discrepancy and mapping. The Election Commission of India and the Chief Electoral Officer had failed to publish a list of electors to whom notices had been issued along with specific basis thereof, contrary to the procedure, said the petitioners.

 

The term logical discrepancy has neither been defined by the poll panel, nor does it have any specific criteria or parameter to determine the circumstances in which an elector would fall within this category, the petitioners said. In the West Bengal special intensive revision exercise, mapping meant the exercise of verifying voters' details with earlier records of their families' generational voting data, the petitioners said. The lack of information would make the notice process susceptible to arbitrary and inconsistent application, the petitioners said, adding that it would deprive the elector of a meaningful opportunity to understand and rebut.  End

 

Reported by Surya Tripathi

Edited by Avishek Dutta

 

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