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SC: Adequate Measures Available For Voters in Event of Error/Deletion of Names From Voter’s List(13.02.2024)
Supreme Court while closing proceedings related to duplication of names in electoral rolls, has held that there exist adequate measures for the aggrie.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Voter’s List, Electoral Rolls, Registration Officer
Supreme Court Directs Issuance of Ration Cards, Voter IDs to Sex Workers(16.12.2021)
Supreme Court has directed the State Governments and Union Territories to commence the process of issuance of ration cards/ Voters Identity cards imme.....
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Kerala High Court: Removal of Name from Voters’ List Without Hearing Unlawful(18.06.2019)
Kerala High Court has observed that it is illegal to remove a voter from the voters list without giving him an opportunity of hearing. Further any ina.....
Tags : Kerala High Court, Voters' List
Allahabad HC: Learning Driving License, Voter ID Card Can't Be Considered to Determine Juvenile's Age(11.04.2022)
Allahabad High Court has observed that the Learning Driving License and Voter I.D. Card should not be taken into account while determining the age of .....
Tags : Allahabad High Court, Learning Driving License, Voter I.D., juvenile
Telangana High Court Issues Notice Asking for Plan to Manage Crowds of Voters(29.04.2021)
Telangana High Court has issued notice to the State Election Commission, asking it to furnish a plan that it proposes for managing crowding of voters .....
Tags : Telangana High Court, Manage Crowds of Voters
Gujarat HC: Inclusion/ Exclusion of Name In Voters' List Not An Extraordinary Circumstance(18.05.2022)
Gujarat High Court has reiterated that removing a person's name from the voters' list is not an extraordinary circumstance that requires the High Cour.....
Tags : Gujarat High Court, voters' list, High Court, Article 226
SC Asks Centre to Act on Plea Seeking a System to Authenticate Government ID Cards(25.10.2016)
Supreme Court has asked Centre to consider as representation a PIL seeking to put in place a technology to authenticate identity cards like voter ID, .....
Tags : Supreme Court, PIL, voter ID, Aadhar cards, driving licenses
SC: Voter has Right to Know About the Full Background of a Candidate(26.07.2023)
Supreme Court has observed that elector or voter’s right to know about the full background of a candidate - evolved through court decisions - is an ad.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Voter, Right, Background
SC: Every Voter Has Fundamental Right to Know About Educational Qualification of Candidate(02.11.2016)
Supreme Court has held that voters have a fundamental right to know academic qualification of a candidate and any false declaration on this count can .....
Tags : Supreme Court, academic qualification, voters
Gujarat High Court Refuses to Intervene in Matter of Missing Names from Voters List(30.11.2015)
Gujarat HC while refusing to intervene, has said that voters whose names were deleted from voters list can approach competent courts and authorities.
Tags : Gujarat HC, voters list
Bombay HC: Can’t Presume Misuse if Names of Dead Persons Continue to be in Voters List(18.06.2025)
Bombay High Court while upholding the election of a Congress MP, has stated that merely because name of dead persons have been included in the voters .....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Congress MP, Voters List
Madras High Court Voices Concern Over Bogus Voter Entries(14.12.2017)
Madras High Court has voiced its anguish over a large number of illegal entries in the voters' list in the by poll-bound RK Nagar Assembly constituenc.....
Tags : Madras High Court, Bogus Voter
SC Seeks Response from ECI regarding Deletion of 65 Lakh Voters(06.08.2025)
Supreme Court has sought response from the Election Commission of India regarding the allegations of irregularities in deletion of 65 lakh voters from.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Election Commission, 65 Lakh Voters
Delhi HC Orders Release of 410 VVPAT Machines For Use in Assembly Polls(08.02.2017)
Delhi High Court has allowed AAP Government's plea seeking release of 410 Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines, which were earlier ordere.....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Voter Verified Paper Audit, AAP
CRIMINAL - SC Asks ECI to Introduce Flexibility in Eligibility Conditions for Registration as 'Defence Voters'(20.02.2019)
Supreme Court has observed that it will be open for Election Commission to introduce requisite flexibility in eligibility conditions prescribed for de.....
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CIVIL - SC Asks ECI to Introduce Flexibility in Eligibility Conditions for Registration as 'Defence Voters'(20.02.2019)
Supreme Court has observed that it will be open for Election Commission to introduce requisite flexibility in eligibility conditions prescribed for de.....
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MP High Court: Aadhaar and Voter ID Cards are Not Definitive Proof of Date of Birth(14.01.2026)
The court observed that "it is evident that the Aadhaar Card and Voter Identity Card cannot be treated as determinative proof of her date of birth. Th.....
Tags : Aadhaar, Voter ID, Date of Birth
Supreme Court Asks Election Commission, ‘By When Will You Introduce Paper Trail in EVMs’(06.01.2017)
Supreme Court has asked Election Commission to spell out time frame within which it would introduce Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in EVMs.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Election Commission, Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail
Supreme Court Refuses Urgent Hearing on Linking Voter IDs with Aadhaar(08.01.2019)
Supreme Court has declined urgent hearing of a plea seeking linking of Voter ID cards with Aadhaar numbers to curtail bogus and duplicate voting in el.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Linking Voter IDs with Aadhaar
Disclosure of Assets Needed to Educate Voters on Candidate’s Financial Status: Bombay High Court(26.03.2018)
Bombay High Court has said that the disclosure of assets and liabilities of candidates in an election was to make voters aware of the financial status.....
Tags : Bombay High Court, Voters
CIVIL - Explain Updation of Assam Voter List: SC to Elections Commission(13.03.2019)
Supreme Court has asked Election Commission to furnish data on addition and deletion of voters from electoral rolls in Assam and also asked how it wil.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Assam NRC, Voter List
Notifications & Circulars
Election Commission of India organises a Workshop for Radio Jockeys on Voter Awareness.(22.01.2019)
Election Commission of India organized a workshop for Radio Jockeys (RJs) of leading FM channels including All India Radio and various private FM chan.....
Tags : Workshop, Voter Awareness, Radio Jockeys