India, Feb. 24 -- The Calcutta High Court has cancelled the leaves of civil judges and magistrates to urgently clear over six million pending cases related to unmapped voters and discrepancies in West Bengal's electoral roll, after the Supreme Court of India allowed it to deploy additional judicial officers following concerns raised by the Election Commission of India about the scale of the backlog.

A senior official of the Election Commission had said on Tuesday that West Bengal may need more than 1,000 judicial officers to adjudicate the six million pending cases of unmapped voters and logical discrepancies arising out of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR).

"At least 6,006,075 cases of unmapped voters and logical discrepanci...