‘Orders cannot be changed every day’: SC refuses to hear pleas of poll workers excluded from Bengal electorate list

'Orders cannot be changed every day': SC refuses to hear pleas of poll workers excluded from Bengal electorate list

Images used for representational purposes New Delhi: Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a request seeking its intervention amid allegations that certain officials on election duty were left out of the electoral roll for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections.A bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant told the petitioners to approach the appropriate … Read more

Unclear court hearing process: SIR leaves West Bengal voters in limbo

Unclear court hearing process: SIR leaves West Bengal voters in limbo

KOLKATA: Not a single applicant has moved the Appellate Tribunal against deletion of SIR and their lawyers seem unclear about the procedure to be followed if they want to be added back to the electoral roll.Aloke Basu, a resident of Haridevpur, went to the Dr Syama Prasad Mookherjee National Institute of Water and Sanitation in … Read more

4 days after Bangladesh’s rolling freeze, court begins hearing today

4 days after Bangladesh's rolling freeze, court begins hearing today

KOLKATA: A 19-seat appeal tribunal will begin hearing appeals on the inclusion or exclusion of voters at the Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institute of Water and Sanitation in Kolkata on Monday, four days after the electoral roll for the second phase of Bengal Assembly polls was frozen on Thursday. The arbitral tribunal was constituted … Read more

EC forms 19 appeals tribunals to hear SIR cases

EC forms 19 appeals tribunals to hear SIR cases

New Delhi: election committeeact in the following direction Supreme Court On the recommendation of the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court, 19 appellate tribunals were set up on Friday to hear appeals against orders passed by designated judicial officers in Bengal regarding the inclusion or exclusion of potential voters from the state’s electoral roll.The … Read more