The Supreme Court docket in the present day refused to entertain the writ petition difficult the ‘logical discrepancy’ class within the West Bengal SIR.
The bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi was listening to the plea.
On the outset, the CJI declined to entertain the plea on the idea of the limitation of Article 32 jurisdiction. The CJI requested : “In Article 32, you need us to determine who’s your father, your mom, your brother?”
The bench dismissed the plea, whereas granting liberty to the petitioner to make a illustration earlier than the ECI. The order reads :
” We see no grounds to entertain this writ petition…the petitioner, nevertheless, has a proper to submit his objections, which shall be thought-about by the prescribed authorities strictly in accordance with regulation.”
The petitioner sought a declaration that that the applying of the “Logical Discrepancy” standards within the Particular Intensive Revision of electoral rolls within the State of West Bengal is extremely vires the provisions of Article 14 and Article 324 of the Structure. He additionally challenged the discover issued to the him pursuant to the impugned “Logical Discrepancy” standards.
In West Bengal, the ECI put some individuals, who had been included within the draft roll, within the logical discrepancy class, over mismatches or anomalies in voter particulars, together with spelling variations, inconsistencies in parental or age info, and different information irregularities recognized by system-generated algorithms, that are getting used as grounds for summoning voters for quasi-judicial hearings.
On January 19, the bench had issued a set of instructions to the Election Fee of India(ECI) to make sure that the verification of the individuals put within the ‘logical discrepancies’ class is performed in a clear method, with out inflicting stress and inconvenience to the individuals.
The stated instructions had been issued in a batch of petitions difficult the West Bengal SIR.
Case Particulars : MD ZIMFARHAD NOWAJ vs. ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA| W.P.(C) No. 000161 / 2026
