The Election Commission of India (ECI) has, in no uncertain terms, told the Supreme Court to leave its “exclusive jurisdiction” to decide when and how to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls alone.
The ECI said its power to decide if a revisional exercise would be intensive or summary would “depend on the situation”. Anyway, the poll body said, the call was entirely its own and outside the judicial ambit.
“The decision to conduct a summary or an intensive revision of the electoral roll is left to the discretion of the ECI. The ECI has complete discretion over the policy of revision to the exclusion of any other authority,” the poll panel submitted.
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Provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 and the Registration of Electoral Rules, 1960 gave the ECI “complete discretion on the timing of the revisional exercise”.
