Electoral-roll revision, Form 6 and Form 7 safeguards
Quick dive
- The Supreme Court said it had not approved modifications to Form 6 made during the special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
- Form 6 is used by an eligible person seeking inclusion in the electoral roll, while Form 7 is used to object to or seek deletion of a name.
- West Bengal reported more than 91 lakh deletions during SIR, with about 27 lakh appeals and roughly 1.26 lakh of 38.31 lakh appeals cleared by tribunals.
- Karnataka received 91,278 Form 7 applications between June 16 and October 4, while the CEO said deletion requires inquiry and a hearing by the Electoral Registration Officer.
- exam_relevance: tests the statutory forms, Article 324, ERO procedure, appellate tribunals and due-process safeguards through exact figures, echoing UPSC’s repeated focus on Election Commission powers and voter inclusion.
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