Supreme Court Has Not Approved Modified Form 6 For SIR, CJI Surya Kant Clarifies
- Chief Justice of India Surya Kant clarified that the Supreme Court did not approve the Election Commission’s modified Form 6 for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision.
- A bench led by Surya Kant was hearing advocate Shailendra Mani Tripathi’s petition alleging that the Election Commission made 14 decisions unilaterally.
- The revised Form 6 added a declaration asking applicants whether they or their parents appeared in an earlier Special Intensive Revision, although the statutory form was unchanged.
- The court said it would examine the changes after receiving a report from the Election Commission.
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'Modified Form 6 Not Approved By Supreme Court': Chief Justice Surya Kant
The ECI has said that Form 6 itself has not been amended; it maintained that it only added an extra declaration to be used by new voters for the voter roll cleanup exercise Special Intensive Revision (SIR)
Supreme Court Has Not Approved Modified Form 6 For SIR, CJI Surya Kant Clarifies
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Monday made it clear that the Supreme Court had not approved the Election Commission of India's (ECI) revised Form 6 declaration introduced during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The
The Supreme Court has issued a significant comment on Form 6, used for the SIR process. The court stated that it did not approve of the changes to Form 6. It should be noted that Form 6 has been modified for the SIR process, adding a declaration and requesting two additional pieces of information from voters.
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