Bihar SIR: Supreme Court asks EC to give details of 3.7 lakh excluded voters

NEW DELHI: Continued accusations from NGO-petitioners that the Election Commission deleted names from the Bihar elector database aft the special intensive revision made EC retort successful the Supreme Court that each governmental parties person expressed restitution with the workout and that not a azygous entreaty has been filed against the deletion of names. The seat said, "There are radical surviving unauthorisedly successful the state. They bash not privation to exposure themselves by filing appeals against deletion of their names. Let 100 radical record affidavits and archer the tribunal that they privation to record an entreaty against deletion of their names."

The last Bihar elector database contained 7.4 crore names. SIR saw the deletion of 65 lakh voters successful the draught voters list. Subsequently, different 3.7 lakh names were deleted, and 21.5 lakh voters, mostly caller ones, were added.

The Supreme Court asked EC to supply it with the details of 3.7 lakh excluded voters. With EC counsel Rakesh Dwivedi insisting that the NGO represented by

Prashant Bhushan

should record affidavits by individuals alleging that their names were deleted without intimation, a seat of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi wondered, "For whom was this workout undertaken (by the NGO)?"