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  "id": 14616136,
  "title": "India news: Supreme Court likely to hear Rahul Gandhi's Election Commision plea",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/india-news-supreme-court-likely-to-hear-rahul-gandhis-election",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-15T05:09:00.000Z",
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    "url": "https://www.dw.com/en/india-news-supreme-court-likely-to-hear-rahul-gandhi-s-election-commision-plea/live-79665180?maca=en-rss-en-top-1022-xml-mrss"
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  "summary": "The Supreme Court in India is scheduled to hear a petition filed by opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and several other lawmakers against the Election Commission of India. The petition challenges the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, which has purged over 130 million names from the country's electoral rolls. The SIR process, which aims to remove deceased, relocated, and duplicate voters as well as foreign illegal immigrants, has been criticized for allegedly manipulating voter rolls to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Gandhi's petition seeks an interim suspension of the nationwide revision of voter rolls, an audit of voter deletions, and safeguards against deletions without prior notice. The Election Commission denies the allegations and claims that the exercise is necessary for maintaining the integrity of the electoral process.",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/anti-cec-protest-live-supreme-court-likely-to-hear-rahul-gandhi-india",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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