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The Supreme Court connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to a “sympathetic view” of pleas to widen the day of submission of enumeration forms nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2026 of the electoral rolls, taking into information the “ground realities” successful assorted States, including Uttar Pradesh and Kerala.
The docket for Kerala had been revised earlier, with the enumeration deadline pushed to (Thursday) December 18 and the draught elector database to beryllium published connected December 23. The revised deadline for U.P. was modified to December 26.
Senior advocator Siddharth Luthra, appearing for petitioners challenging the Uttar Pradesh SIR of electoral rolls, including Barabanki MP Tanuj Punia, asked what was the hurry to behaviour the workout erstwhile the Assembly elections were lone scheduled to beryllium successful 2027.
For Kerala, elder advocator Kapil Sibal said 25 lakh electors would beryllium excluded from the draught list. Mr. Sibal said December 18 was the past day of the enumeration signifier successful the State. “The hubby is excluded and the woman included. When the authorities cognize of this, they delete the woman too,” Mr. Sibal said.
A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi further listed the proceeding connected the constitutionality of the SIR connected January 6, 2026, aft the wintertime break.
The ECI is scheduled to marque its submissions countering the situation to the SIR exercise. The erstwhile hold was announced connected December 11, 2025, the earlier deadline to taxable enumeration forms.
Further, the Supreme Court did not entertain a plea citing the dangers of passing connected citizens’ confidential information to “volunteers” successful the enumeration phase.
