Overview
- The division bench directed the Election Commission to file a short affidavit by November 18 on the necessity and conduct of the Special Intensive Revision, with the next hearing on November 19.
- Mamata Banerjee said a booth-level officer visited her Kalighat office-residence and left forms with staff, but she neither received any form personally nor filled one and will wait until others have done so.
- The bench placed responsibility on the state to ensure protection for booth-level officers after reports of threats during door-to-door work, declining to issue a separate protection order.
- In the PIL, petitioners seek court monitoring and more time for the exercise, question reliance on the 2002 rolls, and the ECI told the court that Aadhaar may be used as a document but not as proof of citizenship.
- The first stage of the three-stage SIR is underway across West Bengal with booth-level officers distributing enumeration forms door to door.