Overview
- Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi will take up consolidated petitions after ADR’s counsel Prashant Bhushan urged urgent hearing, calling the issue fundamental to democracy.
- The court will also hear the DMK’s challenge to the Election Commission’s October 27 SIR notification, with the matter listed for Tuesday on an urgent-stay request.
- The Election Commission has begun the Special Intensive Revision in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
- Petitioners asked the court to prioritize the SIR challenge over cases on the CEC/EC appointments law, arguing the voter list exercise requires immediate scrutiny.
- The bench previously declined to halt the Bihar SIR, and the Election Commission has defended that exercise as accurate, reporting no appeals over deletions and rejecting claims of disproportionate exclusions.