BREAKING| Supreme Court To Hear Petitions Challenging Bihar Electoral Roll Revision On July 10
The Supreme Courtroom on Monday (July 7) agreed to urgently checklist the petitions difficult the Election Fee of India’s resolution to conduct a “Particular Intensive Revision” of the electoral rolls in Bihar.
Senior Advocates Kapil Sibal, Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Gopal Sankaranarayanan and Shadan Farasat collectively talked about the matter earlier than a partial working days bench comprising Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, searching for pressing itemizing.
They submitted that voters who fail to submit the kinds with the required paperwork will face the cruel consequence of being deleted from the electoral roll, even when they’ve voted in elections for the final twenty years. “8 crore is the citizens and 4 crore should do the enumeration,” Singhvi submitted. “It’s an not possible job,” Sibal(for RJD) added. “They will not settle for Aadhaar card, voter card,” Sankaranarayanan stated.
“The timeline is so strict, and by July 25 when you do not give, you may be out,” Singhvi stated. Justice Dhulia stated that the timeline “does not have sanctity as elections haven’t been notified as but.”
The bench agreed to checklist the matter on Thursday. The bench allowed the events to offer advance discover of the petitions to the Election Fee of India.
Up to now, 4 pleas have been filed difficult the Election Fee of India’s resolution to carry a “Particular Intensive Revision” of electoral rolls in Bihar. These embrace petitions filed by RJD MP Manoj Jha; the Association for Democratic Reforms, PUCL, activist Yogendra Yadav and Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra difficult the ECI resolution.
