Voters whose names were deleted from the West Bengal electoral roll during the special intensive revision (SIR) moved the Supreme Court on Thursday (October 8, 2026), seeking a Special Investigation Team inquiry into the process.
These polls are tentatively scheduled for late November, and the petitioners conveyed apprehensions about their inability to vote if the uncertainty prevailed.
Ramjan Ali Molla and four others, represented by advocates Prashant Bhushan and Neha Rathi, said their appeals against exclusion from the voter list were pending before the appellate tribunals for months. They said uncertainty over their appeals, and that of other voters, continues even as the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Howrah Municipal Corporation elections near. The applicants submitted that they were issued notices and summoned for hearings for “logical discrepancies” found in their voter details. They had attended the hearings early in 2026, but their names were marked as “under adjudication”.
In April, the applicants found that their names had been deleted from the electoral roll.
They did not receive any speaking order from the judicial officers about the outcome of their case, nor was any notice issued to them before deletion of their names, the applicants said.
