The Supreme Court will hear the case of names removed from the voter list during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in West Bengal. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the petition of these people. The Supreme Court will hear his petition on Tuesday (March 10, 2026).
Senior advocate Maneka Guruswamy placed the matter before the bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi and demanded immediate hearing, on which the court gave the date for tomorrow. Maneka Guruswamy said, ‘These are voters, they had voted earlier, but now their documents were not accepted.’
CJI Surya Kant said, ‘We cannot stop appeals against the decisions of judicial officers.’ A senior advocate said that the appeal deserves consideration. On this the bench said that the petition will be heard on Tuesday.
On February 24, the Supreme Court had allowed the deployment of 250 district judges from West Bengal and civil judges and calling judicial officers from Jharkhand and Odisha to deal with 80 lakh claims and objections in the SIR process.
The bench also took note of Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul’s letter dated February 22 which said that the 250 district judges posted in the SIR may also take about 80 more days to dispose of the claims and objections. Logical discrepancies recorded in the voter list of 2002 include mismatch of parents’ names and age difference between the voter and his parents being less than 15 years or more than 50 years.
Referring to the new instructions, CJI Surya Kant had said that even if every judicial officer disposes of 250 claims and objections every day, the process will be completed in about 80 days. The deadline for completing the SIR process in West Bengal was 28 February.
The Supreme Court had made it clear on February 9 that no person can obstruct the entire process of SIR. Also, the court had directed the West Bengal DGP to file an affidavit on the allegations of some people burning the notices sent by the Election Commission.
