Archive · 18 Sep 2026
Supreme Court to Hear Delhi SIR Notice Disclosure Plea
The Supreme Court will hear a case about changes to Delhi’s voter list.
The hearing is scheduled for September 22.
The people who filed the case want officials to publish the names of everyone who received a notice.
They also want officials to explain why each person received a notice.
They are asking for the rules and computer instructions used to identify certain voter records.
The petition says more than 47 lakh names were left out of the draft voter list.
It says about 33 lakh voters received notices.
The notices referred to either no mapping or logical discrepancies.
The Supreme Court will hear the plea on September 22 alongside other Special Intensive Revision-related matters.
Petitioners Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri seek publication of the names of voters issued notices during Delhi’s electoral-roll revision.
They also want the specific reasons for each notice and the criteria, algorithms and guidelines used to classify voters.
Petitioners’ lawyer Prashant Bhushan said more than 47 lakh names were excluded from the draft electoral roll.
The petition states that 33,12,919 voters were issued notices for either having no mapping or logical discrepancies.
- Who
- The Supreme Court, petitioners Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri, their lawyer Prashant Bhushan, and the Election Commission are involved.
- What
- The court will hear a plea seeking disclosure of voter names, notice reasons, and classification criteria used during Delhi’s Special Intensive Revision.
- When
- The hearing is scheduled for September 22.
- Where
- The matter concerns the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Delhi and will be heard by the Supreme Court.
- Why
- The petitioners seek transparency and a meaningful opportunity for voters to respond before names are removed from electoral rolls.
- Hearing date
- September 22
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Proceeding
- Special Intensive Revision-related plea
- Names excluded
- More than 47 lakh names from the draft Delhi electoral roll, according to the petitioners
- Voters issued notices
- 33,12,919 out of 97,53,577 electors listed after the enumeration phase
- Notice categories
- 13,79,785 voters were identified as having no mapping and 19,33,134 as having logical discrepancies
- Information sought
- Names of notice recipients, specific reasons, definitions, algorithmic parameters and operational guidelines
