A petition in the Kolhapur Bench of the Bombay High Court aims to restore deleted voters in Maharashtra
MUMBAI: A petition filed before the Kolhapur Bench of the Bombay high court has sought the restoration of voters deleted from Maharashtra’s electoral rolls during the latest Special Intensive Revision (SIR), along with the quashing of 14 administrative orders passed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, according to Bar and Bench. Filed by three Maharashtra residents, the petition alleges that several decisions taken by the ECI and Kumar were made unilaterally and challenges the manner in which the poll panel handled voter registration, deletion and restoration of names, electoral-roll data, the functioning of Electoral Registration Officers and software-related processes. Besides restoration of deleted voter names, the petitioners have sought an independent judicial committee headed by a retired High Court judge to investigate alleged data deletions and software blockages during the SIR exercise.