bengal poll rolls
New Delhi/Kolkata, April 29 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday published a supplementary voter list for West Bengal's second and final phase of assembly elections, adding 1,468 names cleared by Supreme Court-mandated appellate tribunals and deleting six names.
The 19 tribunals - set up on March 20 after an order of the apex court - considered close to 1,500 cases for the second phase of polls and cleared 1,468 applications while ordering the deletion of six names.
For the first phase of elections on April 23, the tribunals had cleared 139 names while considering 657 applications.
This means that nearly all of the 2.71 million people flagged under a controversial logical discrepancy category in the special intensive revision stand disenfranchised without any hearing before the tribunals.
Their applications were rejected in the first stage of logical discrepancy adjudication by judicial officers but there was no time for a hearing before the tribunals - each of which is headed by a former high court judge or chief justice - because the forums took too long to become functional.
"Names of 1,468 voters, which were earlier deleted from the electoral roll by judicial officers after the adjudication process, have been cleared by the tribunals appointed by the apex court. These voters will be allowed to vote on Wednesday....
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