New Delhi: The Election Commission As directed by the Supreme Court, the list of deleted voters will be forwarded as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in 13 states – primarily those classified as ‘Others’, as distinct from Absent, Transferred, Dead, Duplicate (ASDD) voters and thus, excluded from the rolls on the basis of ‘doubtful’ citizenship as well as the decision, during which they are in their mapping with the rolls from the previous SIR. Could not explain the logical inconsistencies – to the competent authority under the Citizenship Act, 1955, to investigate his citizenship.Election Commission officials welcomed the decision, saying that the SIR and all its processes, including seeking further clarification from voters on the basis of logical anomalies – mismatch with father’s name, gender mismatch, being above 45 years of age but never enrolled, being one of more than six children of the same parent, age difference of less than 15 years or more than 50 years with the mapped parent and those of the mapped grandparents. including a difference of less than 40 years – and eliminating those who fail to explain the discrepancies. Validated by SC. Those challenging the SIR had previously called these logical inconsistencies an exercise in disenfranchisement.Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said, “The Election Commission was, is and will always be with the voters.”According to EC data from a dozen states covered in the second round of SIR, around 6.5 crore ASDD voters were removed. More than 12.7 lakh people were excluded from the list and classified as ‘others’, who sources said are basically “suspected illegal immigrants”. Another 63.2 lakh were removed through Form 7 and decision; These include more than 27 lakh people who were removed from the Bengal list after their appeals were rejected by the authorities.The SC’s direction to the EC to hand over ‘doubtful’ citizenship cases under the Citizenship Act to the competent authority was already in the SIR order. The order directed Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and Assistant EROs to “forward cases of suspected foreign nationals to the ‘competent authority’ under the Citizenship Act, 1955”. Sources said the competent authority is the Foreigner Registration Office (FRO) or Foreigner Regional Registration Office (FRRO), and the ERO/SDM can refer ‘suspicious’ cases to them for verification. If the citizenship is verified, the FRO/FRRO can refer the case back to the EC authorities who will include the person in the list. Otherwise, the FRO/FRRO may order the suspect to be sent to a custody or holding centre.