Over 37 Lakh Appeals Pending in West Bengal Tribunals

…however, did not provide a break-up of the appeals filed by electors whose names were deleted and those filed against the inclusion of names in the electoral rolls.Prasenjit Bose, who filed the affidavit, claimed that more than 58 lakh electors were excluded during the enumeration phase of the SIR exercise in West Bengal. He added that while 9.64 lakh applications for inclusion (Forms 6 and 6A) and over 99,000 applications for deletion (Form 7) were received during the claims and objections phase, only around 1.82 lakh additions were…

…on the need to constitute more tribunals after getting the statistics right. The Bench had also asked the EC to consider a mechanism for updating, streamlining the progress of pending appeals before the tribunals. “ Give us the data. Give us the breakup of the nature of appeals filed, whether inclusion or exclusion. Then, we will make a call as to whether appeals by disenfranchised voters seeking re-inclusion should be prioritised… Their exclusion from the electoral roll denudes them of their voting rights ,” Justice Joymalya Bagchi, part of a Bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant, had observed. Keeping the Municipal polls in mind, Mr. Sankaranarayanan had argued in August that the court must direct the tribunals to…