New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday said it would seek a report from the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court on the functioning of appellate tribunals constituted to hear electoral roll disputes arising out of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in poll-bound West Bengal.The issue was mentioned before a Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi by senior advocate Devdatt Kamat.Kamat submitted that the appellate tribunals, set u…
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Kolkata, April 14 (IANS) Congress MP and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Tuesday called the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal “anti-Constitutional” and vowed to restore voting rights of people whose names were removed from the electoral rolls in the state.Addressing his second election rally in Malda district’s Chanchal area, LoP Rahul Gandhi claimed that the BJP and RSS are trying to destroy the Constitution which B.R. Ambedkar dedicated his …
Kolkata, April 7 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday launched a scathing attack against the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the special intensive revision (SIR) in West Bengal, accusing the Commission of not even sparing members of different religious and charitable organisations in the exercise. The Chief Minister addressed three campaign rallies in Nadia and North 24 Parganas districts. In two of the rallies, she specifically named the Swami Vivekananda-founded…
Kolkata, April 7 (IANS) With the judicial adjudication process for voters in West Bengal concluding after midnight on Monday, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has estimated that the total number of deleted voters in West Bengal has risen to approximately 91 lakh.However, the number might increase nominally in due course after the ECI arrives at the final figure, with the process of putting e-signatures by the judicial officers completed for a small percentage of the total number of cases t…
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Vibhu Goel was on Monday appointed as an Additional Chief Electoral Officer (ACEO) for West Bengal, exclusively to coordinate with the judges heading the 19 Appellate Tribunals set up to settle cases where names of voters have been deleted during the judicial adjudication of cases classified under the “logical discrepancy” category.As per the notification issued by the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, Manoj…
Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress, on Wednesday, wrote a letter to the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul, requesting the latter to ensure that in case of “logical discrepancy” cases in West Bengal that will be rejected in course of the ongoing judicial adjudication process, the “grounds of rejections” should be mentioned by the judicial officers involved in the process. In an email communique sent to Justice Paul, Trinamool Congress had said that the “ground of rejection”…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over the progress made in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound West Bengal, noting that a substantial number of objections have already been adjudicated and the remaining are likely to be decided by April 7.A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant took on record communications received from the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court, indicating that more tha…
Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) The judicial adjudication process has been completed for over 78 per cent of the cases referred for adjudication after being classified under the “logical discrepancy” category, with the process yet to be completed for another 13 lakh cases.The figures stood till Tuesday night, said officials on Wednesday. Considering the speed at which the judicial adjudication process is being conducted by over 700 judicial officers, including 100 each from neighbouring Jharkhand an…
Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) Based on the average daily deletion rates of voters’ names in the course of the ongoing judicial adjudication of voters classified under the “logical discrepancy” category, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has estimated that the final deletion figure at the end of the process would be a little less than 90 lakh.Explaining how the estimated final figure of deletion has been arrived at, an insider from office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal on…
Kolkata, Mar 29 (IANS) The judicial adjudication process for 40 lakh voters, which is around 67 per cent of a total of more than 60 lakh voters, referred for adjudication after being categorised under the “logical discrepancy category” had been completed till Sunday evening, an insider from the office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) told. Of the 40 lakh cases, whose judicial adjudication process had been completed till Sunday evening, a total of around 18 lakh cases have been cl…