More than one crore names were removed from the draft voter list of Karnataka published as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls. The state has 4.4 crore voters in the draft roll as compared to the 5.5 crore before the exercise began in June. The names not included in the draft roll account for 19.4% of the state’s electorate.Notices will be sent to 43 lakh persons whose enumeration forms either had anomalies or those who had not been mapped, Chief Electoral Officer V Anbukumar said. The claims and objections by voters against their removal from the draft list can be filed between August 24 and September 23. The appeals will be heard by October 22, before the final electoral roll is published on October 27.Karnataka is among the 16 states where the voter roll revision is being carried out in the third phase of SIR. Read on.The Delhi High Court summoned political commentator Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, media portals The Pamphlet, Law Beat and The Sunday Guardian, and social media account The Jaipur Dialogues in a privacy suit filed by Cockroach Janta Party spokesperson Saurav Das against his home address and other personal information being revealed online. The defendants have been asked to file their replies within 10 days.Das alleged that people from The Pamphlet entered his shared home in Delhi without permission on August 5, and recorded and posted a video showing parts of the property on social media. The video was reposted by Iyer-Mitra, he alleged.Das also alleged that Iyer-Mitra disclosed his address during a Law Beat programme by identifying his neighbour. The commentator also incorrectly stated that his rent was about Rs 7 lakh per month, he alleged.He has sought damages of more than Rs 2 crore for alleged violations of his privacy. Read on.The Bombay High Court’s verdict upholding the acquittal of 22 accused in the allegedly staged “encounter” killings of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his aide Tulsiram Prajapati, and the alleged murder of his wife Kausar Bi in Gujarat, has been challenged in the Supreme Court. The order was challenged by Sheikh’s brother.In December 2018, a special Central Bureau of Investigation court acquitted all persons, including 21 police officers, accused in the matter. It held that the prosecution had failed to prove a conspiracy beyond reasonable doubt. Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Shah, who is now the Union home minister, was among the persons acquitted earlier in the case. Out of 210 witnesses examined during the trial, 92 were declared hostile.While upholding the acquittals in May, the High Court said that the prosecution’s case was based on circumstantial evidence with “several broken links in the chain of circumstances”. Read on.If you haven’t already, sign up for our Daily Brief newsletter.