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About 250 judicial officers engaged successful the past limb of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process successful West Bengal aft the Supreme Court bid started their enactment connected Monday (February 23, 2026). All leaves of the judicial officers have been cancelled, and the urgent cases have been shifted to different Benches to let the SIR process to wrap up faster and much amicably.
Each judicial serviceman has received a abstracted login ID for the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) portal.
The judicial officers volition straight springiness their verdict connected the pending disputed SIR cases and connection their last decisions. According to sources, the fig of disputed SIR cases whitethorn beryllium astir 45 lakh, but a last fig was not confirmed by immoderate officials.
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In a notice, the Calcutta High Court directed each judicial officers of the acrophobic rank, including those connected pre-approved leave, to study backmost to their courts by February 23, 2026, cancelling each leave, different than issues of aesculapian emergencies. The leaves shall stay cancelled till March 9, 2026, according to the notice.
On Sunday (February 22, 2026), district court judges held meetings with territory magistrates and constabulary superintendents to chalk retired a program to code the lakhs of disputed SIR cases.
The last electoral rolls are scheduled to beryllium published connected February 28. However, it remains unclear if each the pending SIR-related tasks volition beryllium implicit by past to support the work of rolls connected schedule.
Meanwhile, connected Friday (February 20, 2026) the Supreme Court had besides agreed with the ECI’s proposition that a database of voters whose names person been cleared should beryllium allowed to beryllium published connected the scheduled date in February. The remainder could beryllium included successful a supplementary roll.
February 14 was officially the past day of the hearing. According to West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal, around 4.98 lakh radical did not appear for their hearings till February 14, and 1.63 lakh voters person been flagged arsenic “ineligible” owed to errors.
Already astir 58 lakh were deleted when the draught elector database was published. They were categorised under deceased, permanently shifted, or untraceable.
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Central forces deployed
In a related development, multiple companies of the Central forces person already reached West Bengal connected Monday after the EC ordered their deployment.
Central equipped constabulary forces (CAPF) officials will conduct a gathering with the State Election Commission officials and State constabulary forces on Monday to hash retired details of their deployment and upcoming enactment during the elections. The CEO of West Bengal will also beryllium portion of this meeting.
The officials will come up with a blueprint to identify sensitive areas successful the State to determine connected the Central forces’ deployment. In lawsuit of need, they volition besides request much Central forces.
By March 10, 480 companies of the Central forces will beryllium deployed successful the State successful 2 phases. About 240 companies of the CAPF volition get successful the State connected March 1. The remaining 240 companies volition beryllium deployed connected March 10.
EC sources said this deployment was a confidence-building measurement earlier the elections.
