81% pleas before Bengal post-SIR tribunals seek cuts, not inclusion, Supreme Court told
Only 700,000 challenge voter exclusions, prompting the Supreme Court to prioritize these cases before 2029 elections.
Nearly 3.1 million of the 3.81 million appeals still pending before West Bengal's post-SIR tribunals are seeking to remove voters from the electoral rolls, rather than contest the deletion of voters' names, the Supreme Court heard on Tuesday. Only around 700,000 appeals were filed by individuals challenging their exclusion from the rolls, while the rest were submitted by entities or people objecting to the inclusion of names.
The Supreme Court's bench, consisting of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, emphasized the need to prioritise the appeals of those excluded from the rolls due to the immediate impact on their voting rights. The court instructed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to provide a detailed breakdown of the pending appeals, categorising them by those seeking deletion of voters and those contesting inclusions, as well as the disposal of each category.
The court stressed that the entire process should be concluded before the 2029 parliamentary elections, noting that a significant majority of the appeals had resulted in the inclusion of names in the electoral rolls.
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