The People’s Union for Civil Liberty said on Sunday that it has filed a petition in the Supreme Court, challenging that the “arbitrary and illegal action” of the Election Commission of India (EC) is said to be “arbitrary and illegal” in directing the special intensive modification (SIR) of the electoral rolls across the country, with immediate enforcement in Bihar, with immediate enforcement in Bihar, the state is said to have only months ago.
PUCL Speaker Kavita Srivastava said that its constitutional challenge for the Sir order is based on the argument that the process “represents a direct attack on India’s constitutional democracy, violating the cruelty of popular sovereignty in ‘Hum, people’.”
Pucl said, “Except for statutory household surprises, arbitrary document-centered exclusion, create impossible deadlines, and systematically disintegrates marginalized communities, the Election Commission has distorted the constitutional mandate, and has reverse the principle of involvement for exclusion.”
The petition was filed on Saturday through PUCL National General Secretary V Suresh.
While “illegal exercises” it, PUCL said that such an exercise is being held in a hurry to cover a population of about 8 crores, resulting in a possibility of voters excluding voters and thus defeating democracy using a lot of equipment of democracy.
Earlier, the Pol-Bound Bihar, Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), an NGO, had approached the Supreme Court, citing the “lack of fixed process” and “improperly short timeline” for the election roll of amendment in the amendment of amendment, by giving unconstitutional and warning to the EC practice that it was challenging millions of people.
In its petition, PUCL says that Bihar has a huge migrant population, which works across India and returns home to exercise its democratic rights. The human rights organization said that they face systematic boycott through this “malicious” head process.
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“Migrant workers lack local address evidence, cannot navigate complex form-based procedures from distant places, and recall compressed timelines due to work commitments. This time seems to be intentional calculations to disintegrate Bihar’s mobile workforce during the important election period,” Pucl said.
In the petition, PUCL has prayed that the ECI order and letter on June 24, 2025 are eligible to be eligible to appear and it is also contrary to Article 327 – which gives Parliament the power to make provisions in relation to the elections of assemblies – read with the relevant Acts and Rules.
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