Owaisi Challenges Electoral Roll Revision in Supreme Court

Asaduddin Owaisi has challenged the Election Commission of India’s conduct of its Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in a petition to the Supreme Court, joining other legal challenges to the voter-roll exercise. Owaisi’s lawyer, Nizamuddin Pasha, asked a bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant to list the petition alongside related cases. The Chief Justice said the court would examine the request. The available reports do not establish that Owaisi’s petition has been formally listed with those cases, and no ruling on its merits was reported. The petition seeks judicial scrutiny of how the revision is being implemented. It asks for an independent committee led by a retired Supreme Court judge to examine the process and technical systems related to electoral rolls and electronic voting machines, according to the petition’s description in reporting. It also seeks booth-level information about deleted electors and the reasons for their removal, along with safeguards to prevent eligible voters from being removed without notice and an opportunity to respond. These are requests and concerns raised in the petition, not findings established by the court.