SIR in W.B.: Supreme Court to consider plea against deletion of electors from electoral rolls

The Supreme Court agreed to see connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026) a caller plea filed by immoderate persons whose names person been deleted from the electoral rolls by the Election Commission during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) successful West Bengal.

A Bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi took enactment of the submissions of elder advocator Maneka Guruswamy that the plea pertained to deletion of erstwhile voters from the rolls.

“These are electors. They had voted earlier and present their documents person not been taken,” the elder lawyer said.

“But successful the strategy of things, we cannot beryllium connected entreaty implicit the decisions of the judicial officers,” the CJI observed.

When the elder lawyer said the appeals are maintainable, the Bench said it volition perceive connected Tuesday.

On February 24, the apical tribunal allowed the deployment of West Bengal civilian judges, successful summation to 250 territory judges, and the requisitioning of judicial officers from Jharkhand and Odisha to grip 80 lakh claims and objections of those facing deletion from the electoral rotation successful the ongoing SIR workout successful the state.

It took enactment of a February 22 missive of Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul that adjacent if 250 territory judges deployed successful the SIR workout volition instrumentality astir 80 days to woody with the claims and objections of those enactment nether logical discrepancy and unmapped categories.

The logical discrepancies successful progeny linking with the 2002 elector database see instances of a mismatch successful the parent's sanction and the property quality betwixt a elector and his/her genitor being little than 15 years oregon much than 50 years.

While issuing a slew of caller directions, CJI Kant took enactment of the information that adjacent if each judicial serviceman deals with 250 claims and objections per day, the workout volition instrumentality astir 80 days to conclude. The deadline for West Bengal SIR was February 28.

On February 9, the apical tribunal made it wide to the states that it volition not let anyone to make immoderate impediment successful the completion of the SIR and directed the WB DGP to record an affidavit connected the EC's allegation of burning of its notices by immoderate persons.