India, June 15 -- At its June 8 meeting, the INDI Alliance - comprising 23 political parties - adopted five resolutions. The most prominent was the decision to write to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) over what it describes as large-scale voter theft through the deletion of names from electoral rolls.

At first glance, the move appears entirely logical. If millions of voters are allegedly being removed, approaching the country's highest judicial authority would seem to be the obvious constitutional response. Yet there is a fundamental problem with that assumption.

The Supreme Court is not hearing these concerns for the first time. It has already examined the legality of the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercis...