The Supreme Court on Tuesday (December 9, 2025) remonstrated with the Election Commission of India for giving “mechanical and cyclostyled” answers every time a human problem is presented in court by anxious voters about the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process.
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant voiced the top court’s exasperation at repeatedly being witness to Election Commission (EC) trying to parry the practical difficulties raised in court with figures and statistics on the number of enumeration forms that have been submitted and digitised.
T.N. migrant workers’ woes
The latest instance came while the court was hearing applications seeking an extension of time to submit enumeration forms in Tamil Nadu. The applicants said that people living in the hilly regions of the States were migrant workers, and many leave for their annual pilgrimage to Sabarimala and will only return by Pongal in mid-January. The enumeration phase, however, is set to end on December 11 in Tamil Nadu.
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