Overview

• In responses to RTI applications, the Election Commission said it has no information on the ‘independent appraisal committee’ and no files, minutes or notings on how the Special Intensive Revision was approved.
• The commission had told the Supreme Court in an 800-page affidavit that an independent appraisal drove the decision to launch the Bihar exercise.
• When asked for orders from the 2003 Bihar roll revision, the commission supplied 2025 guidelines or an inaccessible website link instead of the requested records.
• The Congress cited contradictions between court filings and RTI replies and issued three demands for disclosure of all documents, clarification of the appraisal claim, and release of past records.
• The Ministry of Law and Justice told RTI applicants it had no information on any consultation and forwarded the query to the commission, while the Trinamool Congress accused the poll body of secrecy over the SIR approval process.