00:05okay let's turn to the breaking news that's coming in at the moment the supreme court today
00:09has given scathing observations on sir while hearing the delhi sir please the supreme court
00:16now is saying that the logical discrepancy category under which lakhs of voters in bengal
00:22were deleted is only an interim measure the supreme court says we haven't adjudicated on
00:28legality of logical discrepancy remember as many as 27 lakh voters were off the rolls in bengal
00:36because allegedly according to the election commission there were logical discrepancies
00:41surnames mismatch and other such issues those have been challenged in the delhi sir and now the
00:47supreme court is saying it's an interim measure we haven't decided on the legality of logical
00:53discrepancies anisha mathur who tracks the court joins us prima facie anisha that seems a rather
00:59illogical thing for the court to say to say it's an interim measure of right to vote after having
01:05allowed the election commission to engage in mass deletions now the supreme court while sir is on is
01:11saying no no logical discrepancies we haven't pronounced on the legality what is what else
01:16are the observations of the court on this or what has court specifically said on it well see rajdeep
01:23the supreme court has made one thing very clear that whatever is happening in the sir whether it is
01:29bengal delhi or any other state is something that is still looking into even in bengal as you pointed
01:35out lakhs of people were deleted but remember the supreme court as an interim measure also introduced the
01:41the appellate tribunals that are still working and those 27 lakh persons who lost the lost out on
01:50their names being in the roles for this particular election their application their appeals are still
01:55being heard and we of course it's being heard very very slowly and that is a matter that is also
02:00before
02:00the supreme court and various petitions that people have lost the right to vote in this election but when
02:05it comes to delhi let's look at what has happened today three very serious observations one of course
02:11what you pointed out that the court has said that logical discrepancy is something the legality of
02:15which we are still going to look into because the bihar verdict that came last year has not said that
02:21logical discrepancy or the process itself has been given a stamp the bihar verdict is only saying that the
02:27election commission had the power to conduct an essay second big observation and big uh issue by it is by
02:34the
02:34court is that why are people being asked to fill form six if their names are being put off the
02:42draft
02:42rolls because remember in delhi it's only the draft rolls right now and even those are open till the
02:4730th people have the time to file their claims and objections till the 30th of october which is why this
02:53matter was taken on an urgent basis because the petitioners had said well if you don't hear it now then
02:58people will lose out when the rolls are sealed on the 30th the court has said very clearly that the
03:04time should be extended thirdly this entire debate we've seen over the last few months over form six
03:10versus form eight court has made it very clear that if somebody has shifted their residence or was not
03:15found at their residence when when the enumeration form was sent those people should be given the right
03:21to file form six form eight which is change of address and not form six which is a new voter
03:28and
03:29the court has made that distinction also very clear that people states where and particularly in delhi
03:34because the voter rolls have not been finalized yet they have not been frozen yet then form six has no
03:40business if the final list had come and somebody's name had been deleted then the legal situation would
03:45be different right but you know questions today being raised yeah but this is delhi sir the question
03:51is of course that there are srs that have gone through the same process in karnataka so it almost
03:56seems listening to the court's observations that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
04:00karnataka has got a final role their form six has been used logical discrepancies have been used in other
04:06states the supreme court needs to give us clarity you can't say something is an interim measure which has
04:12already resulted in lakhs of people losing their right to vote so justice bakchi justice surya khan will
04:19have lots of questions to answer anisha mathur joining me on the show tonight thank you very much
