Goa SIR: HC orders Election Commission to restore names of six voters deleted from rolls
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The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the Election Commission to restore the names of six members of a family who were deleted from the electoral rolls during the special intensive revision in the state, The Indian Express reported. Their applications for a change of address had been rejected.
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A division bench of Justices Valmiki Menezes and Amit Jamsandekar ordered the poll panel to restore their names within 10 days.
The petitioners said that they had moved to a new house in the Santa Cruz Assembly constituency in North Goa eight years ago, the newspaper reported. Their booth-level officer had asked them to submit Form 8 to update their addresses.
However, an assistant electoral registration officer told them that their names were deleted from the draft rolls during the special intensive revision and their Form 8 applications could, therefore, not be processed, the petitioners claimed. Instead, they were allegedly asked to submit Form 6, which is used to register new voters.
The petitioners argued that this was legally untenable, as Form 6 is meant for first-time voter registration and not for updating the details of existing voters, The Indian Express reported.
The form requires applicants to declare that they have not been voters before.
The court also rejected a request by the Election Commission’s counsel to...