Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) Case- Supreme Court Hearing-Live Updates

J Kant: Some issues require remedial measures...if you have taken, very well. If not, we will see. Thank you Mr Yadav, you have given excellent analysis. Thank you for your assistance

Hearing to continue tomorrow.

Dwivedi: Mr Yadav can upload her name, instead of this drama

J Kant: We are proud of our citizens, that they are in SC

Dwivedi: WE ARE CONDUCTING A PURIFICATION EXCERCISE. INSTEAD OF TRYING TO STALL, HELP US.

J Kant: Some factual issues raised by Mr Yadav...

Dwivedi: Will respond.

Yadav: This case would decide history of this country

Yadav points to 2 persons produced in Court saying they have been declared dead

Yadav: They have EPIC card...my only question is...

Dwivedi: This drama...

J Bagchi: These may be inadvertent errors, can be corrected

Yadav: Where is my first appeal? On 30.09.2025 electoral rolls will be frozen and on 25.09.2025, EC will tell me my name has been deleted. If I want to contest in Bihar? What would I do? I will file appeal, by the time I do, electoral rolls will be frozen. Bye-bye, see you after 5 yrs. We have confirmed evidence that women are in much more deletion than men. 31 lakh women names have been deleted. If migration and deaths are reasons, women don't migrate...death rate is higher for...shows anti-women bias. We are witnessing perhaps the largest exercise of disenfranchisement in the history of the world. Entire figure will cross 1 crore. We will break record of US in 19th century. This is a tectonic shift in universal adult franchise.

Yadav: It's wrong to say children whose parents' names are there in 2003 rolls don't have to submit documents...I have never heard of legal orders being changed through press releases. ECI changes orders with press releases! One critical point with respect to timeline - according to EC, all forms will have to be scrutinized. They have time limit. The magic figure is - every ERO will scrutinize 4000 plus forms every day, while also handling doubts, floods, etc.

Yadav: They did not find even a single person who should be added? This exercise was for intensive deletion, not revision. They say we can fill form 6. But when you came to my house, you only looked for deletions. Step 3 is this 65 lakhs which have gone. What happened to genuine additions? They've introduced a new thing called - 'not recommended'. Within 7.24 crores, there's a category whose number no one seems to know- with one click, for 2 districts...on what basis was someone not recommended? Why are they not sharing data with the Court? ECI claimed 4.96 crores were already in 2003 roll...actual figure is approx. 2.5 crores. I could be wrong, they can correct me.

Yadav: ECI may please tell me what was special about 2003. We start not with 7.96, but with 8.18 crores. Step 1 is what is the current adult population of Bihar - it's 8.18 crores (GoI statistic). this does not suffer from death/migration issue...it's census-based...electoral roll of Bihar had 7.9 crores...so there was deficit of 29 lakhs to begin with. There would be deletions/mistakes...but it's EC's duty and right to correct...it's the first exercise in the history of India where revision has taken place with 0 addition! Every single revision has involved some addition.

J Kant: Suppose there are some bogus voters, can't IR/SIR be for their deletion? Duty should be both sides.

J Kant: Do we have any analysis of earlier SIR?

Yadav: There was no SIR in 2003...it was IR...there is no comparison between that and this one...never in the history of this country has any revision ever asked all people to submit a form. Never has such revision exercise asked everyone to submit a document. NEVER. In 2003, electoral rolls were being computerized. They gave printout to electoral officers. It had 2 rows. They were to go house-to-house. No form was asked. No document was asked. Intensive revision is a good exercise. 2 things added in SIR are - requirement of form and presumption of citizenship. These are illegal. I would urge ECI to supply a document not in public domain. Can EC supply 2003 order of intensive revision of 2003? It's not available.

Yadav: Completeness, accuracy and equity are the tests for electoral rolls...on all 3 counts, SIR has failed and has been counter-productive. I want to suggest that we should not begin by looking at 7.9 crores. We should see what's percentage of adults eligible to vote. On this count, India is one of the best countries in the world. 99% compared to some of the best - Germany, Japan...US is only 74% (that many persons make it to voter list)...wherever onus is shifted from state to citizen, you will atleast miss out one quarter...most of these would be marginalized. Bihar is at 97%. Bihar is slightly deflated. With one stroke, Bihar has come down to 88% already. There would be further deletions now.

Singhvi: Tribunals are not there in all states...it can't be that Assam (which has the Tribunal) has principle of natural justice, but in Bihar there's all kind of unnatural injustice

Yogendra Yadav appears to make submissions: Mass exclusion has begun. Exclusion is much more than 65 lakhs. It's bound to increase with SIR. It's not failure of implementation of SIR, it's a design. Consequences will be same wherever SIR is undertaken

J Kant: We can sit for another 10 mins.