Parmod KumarNew Delhi, Oct. 5 -- The Supreme Court on Monday clarified that it had never approved any modification to Form 6 requiring new voters to declare whether their own name or that of a parent or grandparent figured in the electoral rolls following the 2003 Special Intensive Revision (SIR), refuting an Election Commission of India claim that the additional declaration had received the court's approval.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana said no modified Form 6 had been approved by it and indicated that, once the relevant records were produced, it would examine who had authorised the changes.
The bench was hearing a petition contending that the ECI could not alter the statutory...