Bengaluru, July 8 (IANS). The Karnataka High Court has issued notice to the Government of Karnataka, the Karnataka State Election Commission (KSEC) and the Election Commission of India (ECI) on a petition challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists being conducted in some selected assembly constituencies of the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA). The next hearing will be on July 15.
This petition has been filed on behalf of the voters of Mahadevpura assembly constituency. The petitioners have raised the question that conducting parallel Special Intensive Revision (SIR) only in some selected constituencies is not legally and constitutionally valid.
The petition has alleged that this process is arbitrary, discriminatory and is also against the established system of voter list revision in the country. In fact, in this petition filed in the Karnataka High Court, the decision of the Karnataka State Election Commission (KSEC) has been challenged, under which separate SIR is being conducted in some selected wards of Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA).
The petitioners say that the Election Commission of India is already conducting special intensive revision of electoral rolls across the country and Karnataka has been included in the third phase (Phase-III) of this process. In such a situation, getting SIR done separately by the State Election Commission is like running two parallel verification campaigns for the same voter.
Let us tell you that this petition was filed by Bengaluru residents M. Vivek, M. Srinath, S.T. Manjunath, T.R. Satish and K.R. Filed by Anand Murthy. In this, Karnataka State Election Commission, Karnataka Government and Election Commission of India have been made defendants.
In the petition, the court has been demanded to investigate the legality and constitutionality of this special revision being conducted separately in selected areas. At present, the High Court has sought responses from all concerned parties and has scheduled the next hearing of the case on July 15.
–IANS
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