Overview
- A Booth Level Officer delivered the notice to Sen’s Santiniketan residence, with a hearing scheduled at his home on January 16 as provided for voters aged 85 and above.
- The case was flagged for a ‘logical discrepancy’ because the form showed an age gap of less than 15 years between Sen and his mother.
- The CEO’s office said required linkage fields were left blank in the enumeration form received via a family member, triggering an automatic hearing under uniform rules.
- Trinamool Congress condemned the notice as a “shameful farce,” while the Congress sought apologies from the Election Commission and the prime minister.
- The notice comes during West Bengal’s Special Intensive Revision that deleted over 58 lakh names and flagged about 94–95 lakh records, with directives for rapid notice delivery and daily reporting; other public figures such as Mohammed Shami and Dev also received summons.