A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana made the clarification while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) petition seeking action against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar.
The PIL was filed in light of a recent Indian Express report which claimed that the CEC had taken many decisions concerning the SIR of electoral rolls unilaterally, despite two of the three Election Commissioners objecting to such decisions.
During today’s hearing, Senior Advocate Menaka Guruswamy, appearing for the petitioner, raised concerns over changes made to Form 6, which is used by eligible citizens to apply for inclusion of their names in electoral rolls.
Responding to the submissions, CJI Kant said,
“Any modified Form 6 has not been approved by us. Let us be clear. When the record is produced, we would like to see who has modified.”