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Supreme Court to Continue Hearing Challenges to ECI’s Voter Roll Revision
New Delhi, December 4, 2025 – The Supreme Court is set to continue hearing petitions today challenging the constitutional validity of the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and other states.
The petitions allege that the SIR exercise, designed to purify voter rolls, could lead to mass disenfranchisement and even statelessness for some citizens. Petitioners argued in a previous hearing that the ECI had become a “despot” by transforming a mere “suspicion” about impure rolls into a widespread survey. Concerns were also raised regarding the lack of machine-readable voter lists.
The ECI has refuted claims of mass disenfranchisement, submitting affidavits to the Supreme Court stating that 95.65% of electors in Tamil Nadu and 99.77% in West Bengal have been supplied with pre-filled enumeration forms. The commission also stated it has already received back 58.7% enumeration forms and digitised them.
The hearing is expected to address the concerns raised by the petitioners and the ECI’s response, with potential implications for the upcoming elections.
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