Supreme Court hearing on pleas against SIR process in West Bengal Today Latest news updates
A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Joymalya Bagchi will hear the matter today. The Supreme Court will hear pleas by Trinamool Congress leaders alleging procedural irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Joymalya Bagchi will hear the matter today. Last week, a bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi gave ECI a week’s time to respond to the applications by TMC MPs Derek O’Brien and Dola Sen. Story continues below this ad O’Brien’s application contends that ECI is issuing instructions to booth level officers (BLOs) and others through informal channels, such as WhatsApp, thereby making it impossible to establish an audit trail. As regards the logical discrepancy category, the plea said that alleged mismatches or anomalies in voter details, including spelling variations, inconsistencies in parental or age information, and other data irregularities identified by system-generated algorithms, are being used as grounds for summoning voters for quasi-judicial …


