The Supreme Court on Friday heard the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) case of voter list in West Bengal. During this, the Supreme Court commented that neither the Election Commission nor the State Government will violate our orders. The Supreme Court also said that we have made it clear which documents are to be examined. Our orders are very clear. On behalf of the West Bengal government, it was told in the Supreme Court that the Election Commission had issued a training module for the judicial officers deployed in the SIR of voter lists in the state. The Supreme Court commented that it knows its judicial officers and they will not be influenced by anything.
Training module released for judicial officers: Bengal government
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for West Bengal, mentioned the matter before a bench of Chief Justice (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi. He told the bench, ‘The Election Commission has issued instructions to judicial officers behind the bench. A training module has been issued in which it is said what they should accept and what they should not. On this, the Chief Justice said that the judicial officers deployed for this process in the state will take decisions in this regard. CJI said, ‘We cannot tolerate such things. This must end. We know our judicial officers and they cannot be influenced by anything. With this the Supreme Court said that the court has made it clear which documents are to be examined.
No one will go beyond our orders: Supreme Court
Justice Joymalya Bagchi said that our orders are very clear. The bench said that neither the Election Commission nor the state government will go beyond the orders passed by the Supreme Court in this matter.
Frustrated with the ongoing impasse between the West Bengal government and the Election Commission, the apex court issued an ‘extraordinary’ direction on February 20. In this, instructions were given to deploy serving and former district judges to assist the Election Commission in the SIR of disputed voter lists in the state.
