Supreme Court questions basis of Delhi election notices
India’s Supreme Court has questioned whether notices issued under Delhi’s special intensive revision process were mechanically generated and whether recipients understood the discrepancies they were expected to address. Petitioners say the Election Commission has not defined the term “logical discrepancies”, according to The Hindu.
India’s Supreme Court has questioned the way notices were issued during a special intensive revision process in Delhi, The Hindu reports. The court said the notices appeared to be “machine-generated” and mechanically issued. It asked counsel for the Election Commission whether the people who received them knew which logical discrepancies they were required to prove incorrect.
The petitioners argued that the Election Commission had not defined the expression “logical discrepancies”. The supplied material does not give the Election Commission’s response to the court’s question. It also does not state what orders the court issued or how many notices were involved.
The proceedings concern the clarity and basis of the notices sent to recipients.
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