The Supreme Court heard a petition on September 22 challenging notices issued to about 33 lakh voters in Delhi’s Special Intensive Revision.
A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana took up the matter.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan argued that the process was opaque, saying the Election Commission had not disclosed why individual voters were flagged.
About 47.7 lakh names were removed from the draft electoral roll published on August 31.
The final roll is scheduled for November 4, with claims for inclusion due by September 30.
A Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana agreed to hear the plea on Delhi’s Special Intensive Revision on September 22.
The petition challenges notices issued to about 33 lakh people during the exercise.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the petitioners, argued that the process was opaque.
He said the Election Commission had not disclosed the basis for flagging people as a ‘logical discrepancy’ or ‘unmapped’, either in the notices or on its website.
Bhushan said, in effect, that voters were not being told the specific reason their names were flagged.
The draft electoral roll for Delhi, published on August 31, 2026, removed about 47.7 lakh names from the existing list of roughly 1.45 crore electors.
Officials said around 97.51 lakh enumeration forms were collected or uploaded during the revision process.
The final electoral roll is scheduled to be published on November 4, 2026.
The deadline for filing claims for inclusion in the roll is September 30, 2026.
Special Intensive Revision is a process in which the Election Commission re-verifies the electoral roll, requiring voters to fill in enumeration forms and flagging discrepancies for further checks.
Prominent voters who received notices in the exercise included External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and BJP veteran L K Advani.
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