Delhi SIR notices seem ‘machine-generated’, clarity needed on ‘logical discrepancies’, says SC
More than 33 lakh voters in the national capital had been served notices on ‘flimsy reasons’, petitioners submitted before the Supreme Court.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice on a plea raising questions about the manner in which the special intensive revision of electoral rolls was being carried out in Delhi, Bar and Bench reported.
It observed that voters needed clarity when they were being served notices for “logical discrepancies”.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant took note of concerns that the notices issued to voters in the “doubtful” list did not provide sufficient reasons or details.
The petitioners said that more than 33 lakh voters in Delhi had been sent notices on “flimsy reasons”, Live Law reported.
Notice mechanically issued, says bench
During the hearing on Tuesday, Justice Joymalya Bagchi verbally observed that the notices appeared to have been issued “almost mechanically”, Bar and Bench reported.
“In all probability, they are machine-generated notices,” he was quoted as saying, asking the counsel representing the Election Commission to examine whether additional filters were necessary.
Kant said that there was room to clarify what information was being sought from the voters in cases of “logical discrepancies” marked against them in the notices, the legal news outlet reported.
Logical discrepancies refer to what the poll panel considers as inconsistencies, or a mismatch in the name of the voters’ parents, a low age gap with parents and the number of children of the parents being more than six.
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