The Supreme Court will hear petitions on Monday questioning the functioning of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The pleas seek an SIT probe and challenge the legality of electoral rolls. This follows reports that fellow commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi raised many objections regarding the integrity of voter software.
Supreme Court Hears Plea on CEC Gyanesh Kumar Live Updates: The Supreme Court on Monday will hear petitions questioning the functioning of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, calling for an SIT probe against him and seeking to declare the nationwide SIR of electoral rolls illegal. A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana will hear the matter.
The petitions were filed days after The Indian Express reported that ECs Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had recorded objections at least 14 times over the past 10 months to decisions and orders concerning the SIR of electoral rolls. The two commissioners said some of the decisions were issued without their knowledge or recommendation. The two ECs separately wrote to the country’s top bureaucrat, Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan, flagging concerns over the integrity of voter software. The ECI said the letters sent by Sandhu and Joshi to the Cabinet Secretary concerned an officer on deputation and were not related to policy or IT division matters.