Overview
- Trinamool Congress MP and actor Deepak ‘Dev’ Adhikari and three family members received SIR hearing notices, with their appearance date yet to be communicated.
- India pacer Mohammed Shami and his brother Mohammed Kaif were issued notices from Katjunagar School in Jadavpur; Shami’s January 5 appearance was deferred to January 9–11 after he cited Vijay Hazare Trophy commitments.
- Election Commission sources attributed several summonses to discrepancies in enumeration forms, including progeny mapping and self-mapping issues, with some cases lacking older documents such as those from 2002.
- Other Bengali public figures, including Kaushik Bandyopadhyay and Laboni Sarkar, attended Kolkata hearings where officials compared signatures and completed paperwork checks.
- Phase two of the SIR targets scrutiny of about 1.67 crore electors with nearly 32 lakh notices issued after deletions exceeding 58 lakh in the draft roll, while TMC leaders criticize the summonses and the chief minister flags procedural lapses in a letter to the EC.