The Supreme Court on Thursday (December 4, 2025) will continue hearing multiple petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and other States.
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In its previous hearing on Tuesday (December 2), the petitioner side challenging the exercise claimed in the Supreme Court that the ECI has morphed into a “despot” that has transformed a “suspicion” about the purity of the electoral roll into a massive countrywide survey which may not only lead to disenfranchisement but also statelessness for many. Advocate Prashant Bhushan also raised a question on why the lists are not available in a machine readable format.
Meanwhile, the ECI, in separate affidavits in the Supreme Court, submitted that 95.65% of electors in Tamil Nadu and 99.77% in West Bengal have already been supplied with pre-filled enumeration forms, dismissing allegations of “mass disenfranchisement”. The commission said it had already received back 58.7% enumeration forms and digitised them.
