West Bengal SIR: SC refuses to entertain TMC’s objection to EC training modules for judges
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The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain the West Bengal government’s objections to the Election Commission training judges who have been deployed to decide on claims and objections during the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in the state, Live Law reported.
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A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymala Bagchi said that the commission’s training module cannot override the court’s order and that the judicial officers must be trusted.
On February 20, the Supreme Court ordered that judicial officers of the rank of district judge or additional district judge be appointed to help complete the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls in West Bengal amid a tussle between the Trinamool Congress government and the Election Commission.
The court had noted that claims and objections about the voter rolls were required to be adjudicated in a quasi-judicial process by electoral registration officers. It had requested the Calcutta High Court to allow district judges with “impeccable integrity” to help with deciding on objections in the “logical discrepancy” category, such as mismatches in parents’ names or low age gap with parents.
Four days later, it also allowed judges from Odisha and Jharkhand to be deployed for the purpose.
The state’s draft electoral rolls were published on December 16. They showed that more than 58 lakh...