Politics · India · 6 hrs ago
Owaisi challenges voter-list review process in India’s Supreme Court
Asaduddin Owaisi has challenged India’s voter-list review process in the Supreme Court.
Owaisi is the head of the AIMIM party and a member of parliament from Hyderabad.
The process, called a Special Intensive Revision, checks voter lists and makes needed updates.
Owaisi questions how the review is being carried out and has filed a petition about it.
He has asked the court to hear his case alongside other petitions about the same process.
The court has not yet confirmed whether it will group the cases, though it said it would consider the request.
A hearing was expected on Thursday, October 15, but the court has yet to rule on the issues in his petition.
AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has challenged the voter-list Special Intensive Revision process in India’s Supreme Court.
His petition questions how the review process is being conducted.
Owaisi wants the petition heard alongside other cases related to the process.
His lawyer raised the matter before a Supreme Court bench on Wednesday.
The court said it would consider whether to list the petition with the other cases, but had not confirmed that it would be heard on Thursday.
- Who
- Asaduddin Owaisi, AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP.
- What
- He challenged the voter-list Special Intensive Revision process in the Supreme Court.
- When
- His lawyer raised the petition on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. A hearing on Thursday, October 15, was possible but not confirmed.
- Where
- India’s Supreme Court.
- Why
- Owaisi questioned how the review process is being conducted and wants his petition heard alongside related cases.
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Owaisi’s lawyer raised the petition before a Supreme Court bench and asked for it to be heard with related cases.
A hearing was expected to be possible, but the court had not confirmed that Owaisi’s petition would be listed.
- Petitioner
- Asaduddin Owaisi
- Party
- AIMIM
- Constituency
- Hyderabad
- Court
- India’s Supreme Court
- Process challenged
- Special Intensive Revision of voter lists