Big decision of the Supreme Court; Said- Election Commission has the right to conduct SIR, the Commission worked within the limits of its rights.

The court had reserved its decision in this case on January 29.

New Delhi. Supreme Court against the Election Commission Right to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists retained Holding that this process is constitutional for free and fair elections, Pushes forward the inevitability.

Chief Justice of India (CJI) The bench headed by Surya Kant said that it cannot be said that The Election Commission has exceeded its statutory powers by using SIR. Have gone out and worked.

the bench said, We do not come to this conclusion Can reach that the impugned procedure was adopted only for administrative convenience Was. on the contrary, We believe that the electoral SIR is free and fair Emphasizes the constitutional requirement of elections.

Challenge to SIR It was claimed in the petitions that the articles of the Constitution 326, Representation of the People Act1950 and the Election Commission under the rules relating thereto does not have the right to conduct SIR on such a large scale.

top the court has 29 The decision in this matter was reserved in January. in NGOs in petitions ‘Association for Democratic Reforms‘(ADR)’s petition was also included. The first phase of SIR campaign was launched in Bihar.

last year 12 On August 10, the court began final arguments in the case and Then it was said that inclusion or deletion of names in the voter list is the decision of the Election Commission. Comes under constitutional jurisdiction. The Election Commission has removed the voters from the draft voter list published under the SIR campaign. 65 Names of lakhs of people were made public.

As per SIR notification, names of voters 2002 Or 2003 voters of were not on the list, They should contact someone on the list at that time. Ancestral relationship had to be proved. Defending the SIR process The Election Commission had said that Aadhaar and Voter ID card should not be considered as citizenship. Cannot be considered as final proof.

The petitioners alleged that this revision of the voter list ”like National Register of Citizens (NRC) Process” Is, In which the Election Commission is investigating the citizenship, while this The authority lies with the central government.

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