The Supreme Court on Monday verbally remarked that in West Bengal, the Election Commission appeared to have deviated from the special intensive revision procedure that it had adopted in other states by introducing a new category of “logical discrepancy”, Live Law reported.
In the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, logical discrepancies refer to a mismatch in parents’ names, low age gap with parents and the number of children of the parents being more than six.
Justice Joymala Bagchi on Monday said that there was a need to have a “robust appellate mechanism” to hear appeals by persons deleted from the electoral rolls.
Further, the judge remarked that the poll panel deviated from its stand in Bihar that individuals mapped in the 2002 voter rolls would not need to upload documents, according to Live Law.
The Election Commission on February 28 published the final electoral roll for West Bengal, showing that more than 61 lakh voters had been excluded. However, the process had continued with about 60 lakh “doubtful and pending” cases remaining under adjudication based on their objections to their exclusions from the draft rolls published in December.
Several supplementary lists were released, in which the names of more voters have been included.
On Monday, a bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Bagchi was hearing a petition by...
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