Overview

• Election Commission told the Supreme Court it will accept claims, objections and corrections after September 1 up to each constituency’s last nomination date, to be considered after the roll is finalised.
• The bench refused to formally extend the statutory deadline, described the controversy as a trust issue and urged political parties to step up assistance to voters.
• The Bihar Legal Services Authority was asked to deploy para‑legal volunteers to help file forms online, with confidential reports to district judges slated for review on September 8.
• ECI reported that about 7.24 crore electors are on the draft rolls after roughly 65 lakh deletions for death, migration or duplication, and said 99.5% of listed electors submitted documents, while parties filed relatively few inclusion claims and more deletion objections.
• The Commission said verification would finish by September 25 with final rolls due September 30, and it will issue notices within seven days to electors with incomplete papers.