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The country’s highest court dealing with the Indian electoral system, voter rights and democratic process. Supreme Court A very relieving and very important legal news is coming out. ‘Special Intensive Revision’ going on in many states of the country i.e. SIR (Special Intensive Revision – SIR) There was a lot of speculation that after the process is completed, the voter list is ‘frozen’ forever and new names cannot be added. Completely removing this confusion, the Supreme Court has issued a historic clarification on Friday. The apex court has made it clear that completion of the SIR process does not mean that the voter list has been frozen. If someone’s name has been removed from the draft voter list by mistake, then that person can get his name re-added till the last date of filing nomination in the election. Let us know in detail what relief the voters are going to get after this big decision of the Supreme Court and what instructions have been given by the court to the Election Commission.
Supreme Court’s clarification: Completion of SIR does not mean freezing of voter list.
While hearing the SIR process and petitions related to it in major states like Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh, a special bench of Chief Justice of the country (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana has given this important decision. This clarification of the court has made it clear that the purpose of revision of voter lists is not to deprive citizens of their voting rights, but to make the list transparent and error-free.
During the hearing, a demand was raised by various parties before the court to extend the time limit, which was rejected by the Supreme Court saying that there is no special need to extend the time, because under Indian law, the administrative process of adding, amending and removing names from the voter list continues continuously. The court assured that no legitimate voter will be deprived of his democratic rights.
Names can be added till the last date of filing nominations.
During the hearing, senior lawyer D.S. Naidu informed the court that even after the completion of the SIR process, common citizens can officially apply to get their names added to the voter list. According to the rules, for any election Nomination Filing The process of adding new names to the voter list continues validly till the last date of .
This simply means that those people whose names were removed from the draft voter list due to some technical or administrative mistake, they still have every chance to get their names re-registered in the list by filling the prescribed form. This arrangement has brought great relief to millions of voters across the country who were worried about losing their franchise.
Election Commission accepts irregularities, strict action will be taken against guilty officials
A very serious issue also came up during the hearing in the Supreme Court. The Election Commission of India itself admitted before the court that there were gross administrative irregularities and negligence in accepting ‘Form 7’ (which is for deletion of name or filing objection) by some local authorities of Uttar Pradesh.
The Election Commission’s lawyers assured the court that the Commission has already started taking several strict steps to rectify such irregularities. The Commission has assured the court that the officers or employees whose names have been affected in the list of eligible voters due to their negligence will be identified and strict departmental action will be taken against them. Along with this, the Supreme Court has given free rein to the petitioners that they can directly place their objections and evidence of irregularities before the Commission.
CPM’s argument in Kerala case and detailed affidavit sought from Election Commission
Referring to the state of Kerala, lawyer G. Through Prakash, CPM presented its stand in the court that the SIR work had been completed in February itself and the assembly elections were also conducted on the basis of the same old list, but despite this, about 24 lakh voters are still out of the voter list.
On this, the Supreme Court has asked CPM to provide complete details and data of all those affected voters who could not submit their forms due to lack of time or other reasons, so that the Election Commission can investigate those cases individually. Further, senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, appearing for another petitioner, alleged that names of eligible voters have been removed on a large scale during the SIR process in Kerala. Keeping in mind all these serious complaints, the apex court has directed the Election Commission to file its detailed affidavit on all the points and notes raised by the petitioners, so that election transparency can be completely ensured.