Delhi SIR: Supreme Court considers remedy for deleted voters
Quick dive
- 47,56,722 electors were excluded from Delhi's draft roll under the ASDD category: Absent, Shifted, Dead or Duplicate.
- The petition says Form 6 wrongly requires previously enrolled voters to declare that they are applying for inclusion for the first time.
- Section 31 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 provides up to one year imprisonment, fine, or both for a false declaration.
- The Supreme Court said it was considering an order to protect voters and advanced the hearing to October 28.
- exam_relevance: tests electoral-roll revision, Form 6, ASDD classification and the constitutional importance of an effective remedy; the article supplies a precise statutory conflict rather than a generic election story.
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