Overview

• Petitioner Satish Kumar Aggarwal, a former Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha office-bearer, has asked the court to de-register the Indian National Congress and investigate Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge over their campaign targeting the Election Commission.
• The plea seeks an interim ex parte order restraining Congress leaders and representatives from making public remarks that could erode the Election Commission’s credibility while the case is pending.
• It requests a Special Investigation Team led by a retired judge, suspension of further electoral roll revisions or finalisation until an independent audit, and machine-readable, OCR-compliant rolls for public scrutiny.
• The petition cites alleged anomalies such as the addition of about 3.9 million new voters to Maharashtra’s rolls within four months, contrasting this with roughly five million over the preceding five years.
• A separate PIL asks for an SIT probe into claims of large-scale voter list manipulation in Bengaluru Central, as election officials continue to demand sworn affidavits to act on specific allegations.