West Bengal SIR: SC Directs ECI to Display Names of Electors Under ‘Logical Discrepancies’ Category

The Supreme Court docket on Monday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to repeat the names of the electors falling below the ‘logical discrepancies’ class within the ongoing Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in West Bengal.

A 3-think bench led by CJI Surya Kant issued instructions to the ECI on a style of pleas alleging procedural illegalities within the SIR inform in West Bengal.

The apex court docket well-known that the ECI has issued notices to distinct folks described as falling below the class of ‘logical discrepancies’. Thus, with a peep to enabling folks integrated within the class, the Court docket issued a direction to repeat the names of such folks at Gram Panchayat Bhavans, Block Locations of work, and Ward Locations of work.

The court docket requested the say government to give ample manpower to the ECI and the Explain Election Commission to entertain the paperwork and objections and to adhere to the hearing course of for folks likely to be affected. In this regard, instructions will likely be issued by the ECI/Explain Authorities for the deployment of ample personnel.

Persons likely to be affected will likely be celebrated to publish their paperwork before the celebrated officers. The apex court docket instructed that an authority letter be issued in this regard. The bench instructed the parents within the class who contain no longer submitted their claims and objections to contain so within 10 days.

Per the instructions issued by the court docket, notices for the submission of paperwork or objections may presumably presumably be submitted at the Gram Panchayat Bhavans. The Election Commission of India shall field main instructions for facilitating the submission of paperwork by all folks.

The Director Frequent of Police (DGP) of West Bengal has been requested to verify there isn’t any law and clarify field and that the full inform is performed smoothly.

The court docket mentioned that wherever the objection is came across to be ample, such folks will likely be given a possibility of hearing essentially based totally on the course of already prescribed by the ECI in its Current Working Process. The hearing may presumably presumably be conducted at the time of submission of the objection itself.

The Electoral Roll Officers’ Community (ERONET) portal had flagged bigger than 1.2 crore names below the ‘logical discrepancy’ class, which had sparked a fresh row over the SIR inform within the say.

West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC leader Mamata Banerjee had termed ‘logical discrepancies’ a “dubious category.” Accusing the ECI of engaged on the behest of the BJP, Mamata had mentioned, “Acting at the behest of the BJP, ECI carried out SIR in Bengal in a reckless and ill-planned manner, resulting in the deletion of nearly 58 lakh names from the electoral rolls. When even this massive purge failed to satisfy the BJP’s political objectives, a new and dubious category called ‘logical discrepancies’ was invented, forcing 1.36 crore voters to face hearings without the Commission even disclosing the complete list of names.”

Even in Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s case, the ERONET portal flagged a “logical discrepancy”. The West Bengal CEO mentioned that the age distinction between Professor Sen, a voter in West Bengal’s Birbhum district’s Bolpur assembly constituency, and his mother, Amita Sen, modified into decrease than 15 years.

The decrease-off date to file claims and objections (recent voter title additions by Form 6, deletions by Form 7, and corrections by Form 8) modified into extended from January 15 to January 19, 2026, giving voters additional time to publish their capabilities. Hearings on these claims and objections will proceed up to February 7, 2026.

The Remaining electoral roll for West Bengal will almost definitely be published on February 14, 2026.