The Supreme Court on Tuesday (September 29, 2026) agreed to list and hear early a petition challenging allegations regarding Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar’s unilateral exercise of authority in the name of the Election Commission of India (ECI), and seeking his suspension from office.
Appearing before Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, senior advocate Vikas Singh and advocate Mudit Gupta, representing petitioner Rakesh Kumar Singh, made an oral mentioning for early hearing of the plea which urged the court to direct that Mr. Kumar should not exercise the functions of Chief Election Commissioner, pending final hearing of this petition. Referring to recent media reports, the petition urged the court to direct the EC to preserve all physical and electronic records relevant to the allegations of unilateral conduct by the CEC, including minutes, agendas, file notings, approval sheets, correspondence, work-allocation and delegation orders, IT-access records, server logs, audit trails, database-change histories, software deployment records and other records relating to the functioning of the Commission, ERONet/ECINet, the alteration of Form-6, the Special Intensive Revision and the filing of appeals before the West Bengal Appellate Tribunals, from October 1, 2025 till date during the pendency of the present proceedings.
