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Delhi High Court upholds ECI, Form-6 mandatory if name removed in SIR
- •The Delhi High Court upheld the ECI procedure and rejected the demand to allow Form-8 for transferring old voter records.
- •Voters whose names were removed during the Special Intensive Revision must fill out Form-6 for re-enrollment.
- •Petitioners had approached the court seeking a procedure to transfer their existing voter records to a new address after moving homes.
- •The court dismissed the petitioner's apprehension of false declaration, noting ECI's assurance that filing Form-6 will not lead to charges.
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The Delhi High Court upheld the Election Commission of India's procedure requiring voters whose names were omitted during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) to fill out Form-6 for re-enrollment, while rejecting the demand to use Form-8 for transferring old records.
Petitioners argued that because they had moved to a new address during the enumeration process, they could not submit forms on time and wanted to transfer their existing records using Form-8 rather than re-registering as a new voter via Form-6.
The Election Commission assured the court that utilizing Form-6 to add a name back to the voter list would not result in any charges of making a false declaration against the applicants, leading the court to dismiss the petitioners' apprehension as baseless.
