A dedicated bench will be required for West Bengal SIR cases, CJI said. india news

Sumit Sharma India

A dedicated bench will be required for West Bengal SIR cases, CJI said. india news

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress Fresh objections were raised against the alleged massive enrollment of new voters in Bengal on Monday, forcing an already angry bench of the Supreme Court led by CJI Surya Kant to sarcastically remark that they will have to create a dedicated special bench to deal with the number of petitions related to SIRs and elections.TMC MP and senior advocate Maneka Guruswamy told a bench of CJI Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi that the Election Commission has enrolled five to six lakh new voters through Form 6, even though such an exercise was earlier objected to by the court. Form 6 is submitted by people upon attaining the age of 18 years to get their name included in the voter list.TMC had also been repeatedly raising questions over the SIR of the voter list and the mass deletion of names of voters due to ‘logical inconsistency’, which is a ground unique to Bengal for deletion of voters’ names.

A dedicated bench will be required for WB SIR cases: CJI

The bench said that it cannot entertain Guruswami’s oral request and if the client has a complaint against such alleged nomination, he can file a fresh petition stating the cause of action and the grounds of complaint. “We cannot consider a verbal request without any documentation.”Guruswamy said he did not have any documents, but media reports suggest that five to six lakh new voters have been included in the voter list. During an earlier hearing, the SC had said that it is not unusual that a large number of Form 6 applications are submitted by those who have attained the age of 18 years to get their names included in the electoral roll before the elections.The Election Commission had said that all eligible people are allowed to apply for inclusion in the electoral roll till the deadline for filing nominations by the candidates. It said that all the newly added voters will not be able to cast their vote in the upcoming elections.

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