Assam draft voter list flags 10.56 lakh names for deletions after door-to-door survey
The names of 10.56 lakh voters have been deleted in the draft electoral rolls for Assam, which were published after the house-to-house verification of the voter lists under the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) special revision exercise conducted in the State from November 22 to December 20. The total number of electors in Assam, according to the CEO’s office, is 2,52,02,775. However, this includes more than 93,000 ‘D Voters’, whose cases are pending before Foreigners’ Tribunals and who are not permitted to vote in elections until their citizenship is upheld by a court. If these names are excluded, then the number of electors in the State stands at 2,51,09,754, each of whom was covered during 61,03,103 household visits across the State, the CEO’s office said.
Supreme Court special bench to hear suo motu case on ‘definition’ of Aravalli
Amid concerns over the recent redefinition of the Aravalli Hills, the Supreme Court took suo motu cognisance of the matter and decided to hear it on Monday (December 29, 2025). A three-judge Special Vacation Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant will hear the matter. In a judgment in November, the Apex Court accepted the recommendations of a committee of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, defining the ‘Aravalli Hills’ as any landform with an elevation of 100 metres or more above the local relief and an ‘Aravalli Range’ as a collection of two or more such hills within 500 metres from each other.
