Judge Criticises Voter Deletions

HyderabadA sitting Supreme Court judge called voter-roll deletions arbitrary.

Former Chief Justice B.R. Gavai called it judicial impropriety while petitions sit before Bhuyan’s own court.

Draft rolls in several states lost large numbers of voters under India’s special intensive revision, mainly over discrepancy and mapping flags.

Any process leaving millions “second class citizens in their own country” is “intrinsically arbitrary,” Justice Bhuyan said at Nalsar on Sunday.

Petitions challenging the revision in several states remain pending in courts.

Sources: The Times of India