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The Supreme Court volition proceed proceeding connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) the remaining petitioners challenging the Election Commission’s determination to undertake a peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls crossed respective states, including Bihar.
“Can the ECI follow an inquisitorial attack to find whether a idiosyncratic is simply a national by requesting documents? Or is its powerfulness of supervision constricted to verifying the property and residence of an elector?” This was a poser by the Supreme Court Bench proceeding connected December 9 connected pleas challenging the Election Commission’s determination to behaviour Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
It heard elaborate submissions from elder advocates Shadan Farasat, P C Sen, and different counsel representing aggregate petitioners opposing SIR.
The Bench said the EC’s powerfulness of superintendence nether Article 324 indispensable beryllium exercised successful enactment with law norms of fairness and Article 14.
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SC seeks EC effect connected plea challenging ‘special revision’, and not SIR, successful Assam
The Supreme Court connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025) pointed to the peculiar protective laws successful spot successful Assam addressing the region’s unsocial needs portion proceeding a petition alleging that the Election Commission of India (EC) has discriminated against the State by not conducting a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of its electoral rolls contempt the alleged beingness of “40 to 50 lakh amerciable immigrants” adjacent mode backmost successful 1997.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant said it would perceive adjacent week the petition filed by Mrinal Kumar Choudhury, erstwhile President of Gauhati High Court Bar Association, questioning wherefore revision of electoral rolls successful Assam was lone by mode of “special revision” and not an SIR, arsenic done successful Bihar and presently underway successful 12 different States and Union Territories, namely, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, and Puducherry.
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SC seeks EC effect connected plea challenging ‘special revision’, and not SIR, successful Assam
Supreme Court examines petition challenging Assam's electoral rotation revision process amid claims of important amerciable immigration.
Published - December 11, 2025 11:54 americium IST
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