Election Commission of India

Rule Changes

Allowed excluded voters in Delhi and six states to return without Form 6; faces Supreme Court scrutiny and protests

The Election Commission said on November 6 that voters marked absent, shifted, dead or duplicate in Delhi and six states can return to the rolls using the enumeration form from the Special Intensive Revision instead of Form 6, the application for new voters. The relief covers Maharashtra, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Telangana and Nagaland, where the revision is still running. It does not apply in states where the first two phases of the revision have finished.

Updated 9 hours ago

Force in Play

Defending the voter list revision

Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das are out of Tihar Jail on 50,000-rupee bonds, and their case now runs on two tracks: a magistrate's inquiry and a Crime Branch investigation. They reported to the magistrate on October 23 to verify their sureties and were told to return on November 3.

Updated Oct 27