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The Supreme Court is proceeding petitions from Trinamool Congress leaders, including Derek O’Brien’s, alleging discrepancies successful the behaviour of the Special Intensive Revisions (SIR) successful West Bengal, which led to exclusions from the electoral roll.
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West Bengal’s draught electoral roll for the archetypal signifier of the SIR was released connected December 16, 2026. Names of implicit 58 lakh electors of West Bengal person been deleted. Multiple discrepancies were flagged successful the electoral rolls: unusually precocious young deaths, sex bias successful deletions, and particular communities facing much deletions than others.
On the Supreme Court proceeding connected SIR connected January 13, 2026, Senior advocator Rakesh Dwivedi argued that the Election Commission’s relation successful the SIR process is constricted to verifying citizenship for inclusion successful electoral rolls, and it does not automatically pb to deportation. He said that the question of deportation remains nether the Centre’s domain.
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The Election Commission had earlier extended the dates for submitting objections against the SIR process till January 19, 2026. Protests were reported successful West Bengal implicit the SIR proceeding process connected January 16, 2026, during which two offices of Block Development Officers (BDO) were attacked implicit 2 days.
Krishnadas Rajagopal reports from the Supreme Court.
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