Kolkata, February 22: Judicial officials appointed to resolve claims and objections arising from the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SI) of the voter list in West Bengal will only accept 13 identity documents specified by the Election Commission of India (ECI) for the verification of voters identified under the ‘Logical Discrepancy’ category. This information was shared by officials on Sunday.
The decision was announced during a meeting in Kolkata, where detailed procedural guidelines were provided to the judicial officers appointed for this duty and representatives from the ECI.
The ‘Logical Discrepancy’ category includes cases where discrepancies were found in family-tree data during the progeny mapping process. As a result, officials summoned the relevant voters for a hearing and requested them to present one valid identity proof from the 13 documents listed by the ECI to prove their eligibility to remain on the electoral roll.
This clarification is significant amidst objections raised by the Trinamool Congress, which questioned the restriction on the 13 specific documents and demanded consideration of additional identity proofs issued by various state government agencies.
Officials stated that according to the current schedule, the final electoral roll for West Bengal will be published on February 28, excluding cases sent for judicial adjudication. Supplementary electoral rolls will be published after the adjudication process is completed.
Mass adjudication hearings are set to begin on Monday, involving approximately 150 session judges appointed by the Calcutta High Court for this purpose.
In total, around 250 judicial officials have been appointed for the adjudication process, which will be supervised at the district level by three-member committees established under the direction of the Calcutta High Court.
Each district-level supervisory committee will consist of a district judge, a district magistrate (who also serves as the district electoral officer), and the relevant district superintendent of police.
Among the 250 judicial officials, about 100 judges are currently hearing cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, while the remaining are session judges from other courts.
Meanwhile, the Calcutta High Court issued a notification on Saturday canceling the leave of all judicial officials in West Bengal until March 9. Those currently on leave have been instructed to return to duty by Monday, except for those on emergency medical leave.
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