Supreme Court docket Asks EC To Add On Its Web site Names Of 65 Lakh Voters Eliminated In Bihar SIR
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The Supreme Court docket prompt that the EC ought to add the enumerated record of individuals excluded from voter lists as this can assist affected events to take motion
The Supreme Court docket, appreciated the ballot physique’s voter record revision train in Bihar. (Picture: PTI/File)
The Supreme Court docket on Thursday requested the Election Fee to add on its web site the names of 65 lakh voters eliminated throughout the particular intensive revision of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
The Election Fee of India (ECI) has been conducting the particular intensive revision (SIR) of voter lists forward of the meeting elections in Bihar. However, the train has run into controversy with the opposition up in arms in opposition to it.
Because the row escalated, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi handed the order whereas listening to pleas difficult the June 24 resolution by the Election Fee (EC) to conduct the electoral roll revision.
The bench prompt that the EC ought to add the enumerated record of all of the individuals excluded from voter lists, as this can assist affected events to take motion. On the ballot physique’s submission that lists have been offered to representatives of political events, it mentioned: “We don’t need rights of individuals to be depending on political events.”
The Supreme Court docket requested the ballot physique to acquire a compliance report from all of the district returning officers. “As well as, the booth-wise record of those 65 lakh voters shall be displayed by BLOs of their workplaces, of their panchayat workplaces. The general public shall have handbook entry to this record too,” the court docket mentioned.
It, nevertheless, appreciated the EC’s revision train. “We recognize you’re going to the grassroots stage,” it added.
Listed below are the steps the EC will take as per the SC order:
- Names of 65 lakh voters who appeared within the 2025 record however aren’t included within the draft voter record shall be displayed on the web site of the district election commissioner.
- The record shall embrace the explanation for non-inclusion within the draft voter record
- There shall be huge publicity in newspapers in vernacular language, Hindi and English. It ought to be broadcast on tv and radio channels. If the district election officer has a social media deal with, they shall show it there as properly.
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