According LiveLaw, a bench of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Joymalya Bagchi heard the submission that voters who fail to submit the forms with the specified documents will face the harsh consequence of being deleted from the electoral roll, even if they have voted in elections for the last 20 years. This, they submitted, will lead to four crores out of eight crores thus exposed.
Supreme Court Agrees to Urgently List Petitions Challenging EC's Bihar Rolls Revision - The Wire
The lawyers added that the ECI’s decision to not accept Aadhaar or voter ID cards made it an ‘impossible’ task to be completed within a very strict timeline.
A day ago, former election commissioner Ashok Lavasa had written in a column that the timing of the announcement “amid the hysteria of citizenship checks, especially at state and municipal levels in some states, where ‘purification’ was equally important and was used for voter deletion, raises questions about the intent of the EC in the face of the huge population thus affected.”
Lavasa asked why the ECI was attaching value to the cut-off date of 2003, when the last roll revisions took place in Bihar.
07/07/2025