Supreme Court On West Bengal SIR Case: People whose names were cut from the voter list in the SIR process in Bengal will not be able to vote in the assembly elections, Supreme Court did not give interim relief.

New Delhi.New Delhi. The Supreme Court has refused to allow those people whose names were removed from the voter list during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list in Bengal to cast their vote. The court has said that appeals are pending before the tribunals, hence giving interim relief to those people will affect the electoral process. Along with this, the Supreme Court made a very important comment in the matter. The bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said in very clear words that the court will not interfere in the results of the assembly elections to be held in West Bengal unless the margin of victory and defeat is less than the number of voters excluded from the electoral rolls in SIR.

The court said that if 10 percent people did not vote and the victory margin is more than 10 percent, then there is no need to worry, but if this margin is less than 5 percent, then it has to be seriously considered. Along with this, Justice Bagchi also said that voters in West Bengal are getting crushed between different constitutional institutions. In fact, it was argued by the Election Commission that 47 percent of the cases of logical inconsistency have been rejected by the judicial authorities. Commenting on this, the court said that the list of logical inconsistencies related to all the doubtful voters during SIR was made by the Election Commission itself.

The bench said that this is not a fight between the state government and the Election Commission nor is it a game of blaming each other. This is a case of voters being crushed between two constitutional institutions. The bench further said that the courts have intervened only to promote the elections and not to obstruct them. The bench also said that one cannot close one’s eyes to the hustle and bustle of the upcoming elections. In the country where you are born, the right to vote is not only constitutional but also emotional.