India, Oct. 28 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday told the Election Commission to stop treating its own cut-off dates as a threat and go out and find the roughly 43 lakh Delhi electors who have fallen off the rolls, asking that their names be published and that Form 8 stay open to them alongside Form 6.

"You are author of the documents. So better you don't go by time schedule part. Threatening line is - 3 days are left. You have to search out 43 lakh odd people that where have they gone?" Chief Justice of India Surya Kant told senior advocate D S Naidu, appearing for the Commission. "As ECI, you will search. Are they permanently shifted? Temporarily shifted? or still in Delhi? You develop mechanism."

The bench, also comprising Justices J...