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NEW DELHI: Days aft it criticised Bengal govt for often rushing to SC with 'vague and irrelevant' reasons to hold the ongoing SIR of the state's canvass rolls, petitions by persons complaining against deletion of their names from elector lists saw the tribunal uncovering itself facing the aforesaid issue, starring an exasperated seat of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi to ask, "Does the SC person thing but WB SIR to hear?"Appearing for the petitioners, elder advocator Menaka Guruswamy - precocious nominated arsenic TMC campaigner for Rajya Sabha and who had addressed enactment protests against alleged unfair deletion of names during the SIR process - told the seat that determination is nary entreaty proviso against the deletion of names from elector lists which has near galore remediless.For the task of scrutinising documents submitted by 50 lakh voters nether 'logical discrepancy' and 'unmapped' categories, SC had ordered deployment of judicial officers of poll-bound Bengal arsenic good arsenic Jharkhand and Odisha to expedite the SIR process.Guruswamy said that requisite documents were submitted by the petitioners and yet their claims person been rejected. "Their names had figured successful the erstwhile elector lists and they had voted," she said, adding that nether the Representation of People Act, those whose names are deleted person a close of entreaty against the bid of electoral registration officers (EROs).
"But that is not disposable to the voters whose claims are rejected arsenic the judicial officers had carried retired the scrutiny," she said and pleaded for urgent listing of the petitions for a elaborate hearing.The seat said, "How tin we let bureaucrats (who are deputed to Election Commission to execute the task of EROs) to beryllium successful entreaty implicit the orders passed by our judicial officers? We cannot let this." However, the seat agreed to instrumentality up these petitions on with the matters relating to WB SIR Tuesday.
On Feb 27, the tribunal had told elder advocator Kapil Sibal, who had appeared for the authorities govt and objected to EC giving grooming to judicial officers, to counsel the authorities not to unreserved to SC frequently.It had said, "Please bash not travel to the tribunal with vague reasons and effort to hold the process. Every time determination cannot beryllium an irrelevant crushed present and there. There indispensable beryllium an extremity to it. We went beyond our mandate (by utilizing exclusive powers nether Article 142 to nonstop deployment of judicial officers to transportation retired a task which is fundamentally successful the EC domain).
You are making unnecessary complaints."Another acceptable of persons, who are seeking citizenship nether the Citizenship (Amendment) Act - which gives this privilege to members of persecuted number communities successful neighbouring countries who person entered India anterior to Dec 31, 2014 - said their petitions are pending successful SC and they are not being allowed to go voters successful Bengal. SC directed this petition excessively to beryllium listed on with Bengal SIR pleas.
