Overview

• The hearing is the first since the Election Commission released the final Bihar rolls on September 30, listing nearly 7.42 crore electors.
• The Election Commission told the court it has received no complaints from Bihar voters, characterizing the objections as coming from petitioners in Delhi.
• Justice Joymalya Bagchi flagged an apparent 65 lakh deletions and asked that deletion data be displayed at electoral offices in line with SOP.
• Counsel for the Election Commission said the additions in the final list are mostly new voters.
• Commission data attribute most deletions to permanent shifts or untraceable entries (over 55%), followed by deaths (around 34%) and duplicate enrollments (about 10.8%).