Revision of Bihar Election role: The Election Commission told Thursday on Thursday that “the Aadhaar card is not proof of citizenship”. ECI made comments and at the same time responded to the question of the court why Aadhaar was excluded from a special intensive revision of Bihar’s election roles.
The Supreme Court listened to the benefits of the election commission to carry out a special intensive revision (Sir) of electoral roles in Bihar tied to the vote.
The case was heard on a partial working day (PWD) to a bench including the judges of Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi. Head of Rrakesh Dwivedi and KK Venugopal. Maninder Singh represented the election commission. For one of the petitioners, a higher advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan appeared.
The bone of the dispute in hearing 10th July was the provisions of the EC 24th Directive June, which was looking for a large proportion of people in Bihar to prove her Indian citizenship to participate in the elections Bihar Asembly 2025.
What is the discussion about?
The last “intensive revision” in Bihar took place in 2003. The Election Commission stated that people whose names were on the voters’ list until 2003 did not have to submit any documents because at that time there was a detailed revision.
However, others (registered after 2003) must provide one or more documents from List 11 (together with a pre -filled list for existing voters) to determine their date and/or place of birth, which is used to determine citizenship.
Those not listed in the 2003 role will have to submit a document for their birth/birth date according to their date of birth as follows: Individuals of birth before 1 July 1987 to provide a document for themselves, those born from 1 July 1987 and 2 December 2004 to include documents for themselves and one of the parents Parents.
Voters whose names of parents have been in an election role of 1 January 2003 may not submit any other documents concerning their parents, PTI reported.
What happened today in SC?
The Supreme Court challenged the timing of the revision of the EC election role. The court said the vote body that it should act early if he wants to check citizenship under the sir of election roles in Bihar. “Isn’t it too late?” The court allegedly said.
The bench has been quoted to live law as: “EC) is nothing wrong with you in intensive exercise to see that non-docies do not stay on the role. But if you decide just a few months before the proposed elections …”
The Supreme Court also asked the Election Commission: “Why are you getting into the problem of citizenship in a special revision of election roles in Bihar?
The Election Commission stated that citizenship must be checked to become a voter in India according to Article 326 of the Constitution.
“Isn’t it too late?” The bench was then questioned by EC.
Is Aadhar proof of citizenship?
The leader of the advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, who appeared for the petitioner, said that they do not question the powers of the Election Commission, but the way this election excavation was carried out.
Under living law, he stated that the main problem in all petitions is the omission of Aadhar and the identification card of the Election Commission from the list of documents for the purpose of listing.
Since the justice Bagchi quotes subsection 3 of Section 21 of the ROP Act – which stipulates that ECI can perform a special revision of the electoral role so that it can be considered appropriate – Sankarnarayanan said:
Sankaranarayanan said that “he does not claim that Aadhar is proof of citizenship for a person, there was no election role.
(Tagstotranslate) Bihar Election Revision Role (T) Election Commission (T) Supreme Court (T) Aadhaar Card (T) Citizenship Problem
