The official at the level of the booth (BLO) verifies voters documents during the ongoing special intensive inspection camp of election roles in the patch. | Photo Credit: Neither
In any case, the Indian Election Commission (ECI) told uncertainty to the Supreme Court to leave its “exclusive jurisdiction” to decide when and how to perform a special intensive revision (Sir) of the electoral roles themselves.
ECI stated that its authority to decide whether the inspection exercise would be intense or a summary “depend on the situation”. The body of the survey said that the call was completely his own and outside the court.
“The decision to summarize or an intensive revision of the election role is left at the discretion of the ECI.
The provisions of the 1950s of 1950s and registration of the 1960 election rules provided ECI “by a complete discretion of the timing of the inspection exercise”.
“The obligation to revise the election role is not affected in the timeline,” said ECI.
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The voting authority stated that the law allowed the power to hold a special revision of the election role of any constituency or part of it “in a way that can be considered appropriate”.
ECI responded to a petition looking for a court direction from the top court to the vote body to lead Sir at “regular intervals” across the country to identify and exclude foreign infiltrators registered as Indian voters.
The petitioner Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay said that the periodic Sir was necessary to protect the election process from each general, state assembly and the Bocalean elections.
However, the vote panel would immerse from the courts.
“The direction of Sir’s implementation at” regular intervals “across the country would interfere with the exclusive jurisdiction of the election commission,” the highest authority replied clearly.
The exchange came in the middle of the ongoing dispute over the exercise of Bihar Sir, which the petitioners, including opposition political parties, claimed to be a “civic screening” in the robe of the inspection performance of the state’s election role.
The upper body of the vote assured that “it is fully aware of his legal obligation to maintain the purity and integrity of electoral roles”.
ES confirmed that it would be a nationwide Sir with 1 January 2026 as a qualifying date.
“All main election officers (CEOs) of states and UTS are a letter from July 5 to start immediate preliminary activities for Sir of election roles with reference to 1 January 2026 as a qualifying date on a nationwide basis,” EC said.
EC said that he also convened a conference of all CEOs of states and trade unions in Nový Delhi on September 10 to “further strengthen and coordinate preparatory measures for the implementation of Sir” at the national level.
Published – 13 September 2025 12:23 is
