The Supreme Court docket on Thursday handed instructions to make sure transparency within the verification of ‘logical discrepancy’ checklist revealed through the Particular Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu.
A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi famous that roughly 1.16 crores individuals, who have been included within the draft voter roll, have been served with notices by the officers of the Election Fee of India (ECI), citing logical discrepancies and searching for verification.
Basically, the bench utilized the order handed final week, in relation to the West Bengal SIR, to Tamil Nadu. The important thing instructions are :
The names of the individuals figured within the class of logical discrepancies could also be displayed on the gram panchayat bhavan, public locations in taluk.
Individuals underneath the class of logical discrepancy are permitted to submit their paperwork/objections in particular person or by an authorised consultant inside a interval of 10 days.
The paperwork/objections to be submitted to the Sales space-Degree Officer.
The checklist displaying individuals following within the class of logical dialogue will include the temporary cause of discrepancy.
It’s directed to offer sufficient manpower to the ECI and state election fee for deployment of non-public on the BLOs or sub divisional stage workplaces
The district collector to meticulously observe the directions issued by election commissioner of India for deploying sufficient workers for easy functioning of the SIR course of.
The superintendent of police of all districts are additionally directed to make sure that there is no such thing as a regulation and order drawback on the above specified areas.
The Court docket additionally noticed that it anticipated the ECI to observe the identical process in different States as properly, the place SIR is underway.
The order was handed in an software filed by DMK Secretary RS Bharathi. Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal appeared for the petitioner. Senior Advocate Dama Seshadri Naidu appeared for the Election Fee. Tamil Nadu Further Advocate Basic Amit Anand Tiwari represented the State.
Case : RS Bharathi v. Election Fee of India W.P.(C) No. 1072/2025
