NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Tuesday the plea filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and several Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound state.
As per the cause list published on the website of the apex court, a Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and comprising Justices R Mahadevan and Joymalya Bagchi will take up the petitions filed by Banerjee as well as TMC MPs Dola Sen and Derek O’Brien.
In her plea, Chief Minister Banerjee has accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of acting with political bias and alleged that the manner in which the SIR exercise is being conducted would result in the deletion of names of lakhs of voters belonging to marginalised sections of society.
She has contended that the process disproportionately affects vulnerable groups and has sought directions to ensure that genuine voters are not excluded from the electoral rolls.
During the previous hearing, the apex court had intervened to address the deadlock between the West Bengal government and the poll body over the conduct of the revision exercise and directed that judicial officers be involved in the process of deciding objections and claims filed by voters.