- The Supreme Court presided over a bench that ruled on petitions filed regarding the legality of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) conducted by the Election Commission of India concerning India's electoral architecture.
- The Supreme Court reviewed the ECI's Special Intensive Revision process, which was conducted on Bihar electoral rolls.
Gopal Sankaranarayanan highlighted pending appeals before tribunals related to the Special Intensive Revision process in Bihar.
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Updated Jul 17
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What happened
Gopal Sankaranarayanan highlighted pending appeals before tribunals related to the Special Intensive Revision process in Bihar.
Who's involved
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Part of
The Supreme Court reviewed the ECI's Special Intensive Revision process, which was conducted on Bihar electoral rolls.Also in this story
- Supreme Court heard petitions regarding the SIR exercise in Bihar, challenging CEC Gyanesh Kumar's decisions.
- Priya Mishra filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging alterations to Form 6 concerning electoral rolls in Bihar.
- The Election Commission of India conducted the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar, which the Supreme Court subsequently upheld.
The entities involved
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Gopal Sankaranarayanan
Indian lawyer
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election commission
body which oversees elections
- Congress accuses the Election Commission of systematically excluding voters through the SIR process in Delhi, holding government officials accountable.
- Gyanesh Kumar serves as the Chief Election Commissioner while the ECI handles elections in Karnataka, facing allegations of being a puppet for the ruling party.
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Bihar
state in eastern India
Related events
- Asaduddin Owaisi challenges the legality of the Election Commission of India's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) implementation in Bihar.
- ECI started the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in Bihar, while appellate tribunals ruled on voter exclusion in West Bengal.
- ECI conducts Special Intensive Revision in Bihar and defends the process against opposition attacks.
- Judges reserved judgment and the Election Commission issued a certificate regarding election difficulty in Pune.
- Judges defended the Election Commission against political attacks while the ECI conducted electoral roll revisions in India.