The Supreme Court today iterated that it had not yet examined the matter concerning Form 6, which is needed for registering as a new voter.
The observation came from a bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana while hearing a petition on the voter roll cleanup exercise special intensive revision (SIR). The petitioner’s lawyer said that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has said that Form 6 was approved by the Supreme Court.
“It was neither approved or disapproved. The Supreme Court, iterating what it had said in a previous hearing, said there was no application regarding the new Form 6 when the case over the SIR in Bihar was taken up. the Supreme Court said it had not approved any modifications to Form 6 being used by the ECI during the SIR of electoral rolls in various states While hearing a separate petition on October 5.
We haven’t examined it,” the Supreme Court said.
