The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard the ongoing Special Intensive Revision in Bihar i.e. SIR (Voter List Verification) in general terms.
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Advocate Kapil Sibal, who is advocating on behalf of RJD MP Manoj Jha, said- 12 living people have been described as dead in Bihar’s voter list.
Senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi said on behalf of the Election Commission-
Some mistakes were natural in this type of exercise. It can be corrected to claim that the dead were declared dead and alive, as it was a draft.
On this, the Supreme Court said-
Be prepared with facts and data, as many other questions will arise before the process starts before the process, the number of voters, and now the number of dead.
The case is being heard in the bench of Supreme Court Justice Suryakant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi.
Earlier, during the hearing on July 29, the court had said that if the names of the voters are cut on a large scale, then we will intervene.
Petitioners challenging SIR say that the names of 65 lakh voters are being cut. It is being said that some of them have left their home and gone somewhere else, some have died.
Earlier, the Supreme Court refused to stay the SIR. The Supreme Court had told the ADR- ‘If there is a flaw, the whole process will be canceled.’
At the same time, the Election Commission had asked why Aadhaar card, voter ID and ration card are not being accepted for voter identity.
The Election Commission had said, ‘Ration card cannot be considered. It is made on a very large scale, it is more likely to be fake. ‘
SC had said- If it is a matter of fraud, then there is no such document on the earth, which could not be copied. In such a situation, what is the basis of your list of 11 documents?
On August 8, the court sought concrete arguments from the petitioners
Earlier, the court had asked the petitioners to give concrete basis and arguments of the allegations made in its petition by 8 August.
At the same time, the Election Commission was directed to present the list of names of 65 lakh voters removed during the SIR process in the court.
Election Commission told SC- it is doing its work in a legal manner
At the same time, in the reply filed before the hearing in the Supreme Court on August 12, the Election Commission has said that it is doing its work in a legal manner. Such a law is not necessarily made public of names with the draft list. The Election Commission has told the Supreme Court that no voter’s name will be removed from the list during SIR.
NGO filed a petition
Following the order given by the Election Commission about the voter list revision on 24 June, the NGO filed a petition and raised many serious questions.
Recently, another application was made by the NGO in the Supreme Court, which said that the names of 65 lakh removed voters should be made public.
What was the petitioner’s lawyer argued
On behalf of the NGO in the court, advocate Prashant Bhushan had said, the reasons for the removal of 65 lakh voters should be given, as there is a list in the form of a draft.
Prashant Bhushan also told the court that some political parties have been given a list of voters removed, which did not report that the voter has died or migrated.
Know what is the matter
The SIR process was carried out by the Election Commission to fix the voter list in Bihar. There was talk of removing the names of those who have either died or have been transferred from the voter list by revising intense revision or which has more than one voter card.
Several organizations and petitioners alleged that there were widespread irregularities in the process. Names of legitimate voters have also been removed from the list.
Politics released on draft list
The Election Commission had fixed the date till August 8 for the claim objection to all the people on the draft list. Even after so many days, many political parties did not officially register any objection with the Election Commission.
There is a continuous rhetoric of political parties. The allegations made by political parties and the current information have been questioned on the seriousness of political parties.
According to the Commission, political parties are just accusing, but are not formally taking any steps. While they have the entire process and opportunity to register objection as per rules.
According to the data released by the Election Commission, RJD has 47506 blo, but the objection is so far zero. Similarly, there is an objection to the 17549 blo of the Congress, there is a single one, 1496 blo of the floor, but the objection is not one. At the same time, the Communist Party of India has 899 blo, but it has not even registered a single objection so far.
RJD MP Manoj Jha, TMC MP Mahua Moitra has filed petitions against SIR. On behalf of the petitioners, lawyers Gopal Shankar Narayan, Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi examined. The Election Commission was advocated by former Attorney General KK Venugopal, Rakesh Dwivedi and Maninder Singh.
