Weeks of reporting has made one thing clear. The most vulnerable groups are at a greater risk of deletion from the SIR. New report 👇🏻

Shameful incident. Please let us do our work @DelhiPolice

The software deciding who gets on India's electoral roll is a black box. ERONET was built by C-DAC, quietly handed to TCS, and the Election Commission hasn't said a word about audits, versions or updates. Even judges, ex-ministers and veterans are getting SIR notices. We're digging in with explainers, RTIs and questions to every body involved.

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In Karnataka SIR @anisha_w finds that 38 people seek deletion of 3,750 voters, mostly Muslims And this across 2 seats thenewsminute.com/karnataka/…

Pre SIR deletions are showing lack of due process. No fair chance to appeal and be heard against such deletions, as otherwise mandated. The process is opaque and confusing. What happens to these 13 lakh deleted voters?

Is this what we call conflict of interest?

It's a backhand compliment to my colleagues at @reporters_co that a Rs 450 crore annual revenue newspaper @htTweets, in order to fill its page 1, has to plagiarise a story from a tiny newsroom run on citizens' donations. Read the original story: reporters-collective.in/trc/… Donate to support journalists at The Reporters' Collective, who help Hindustan Times pretend once in a while to have a spine: reporters-collective.in/supp…

Did authorities need to be so violent? Did they learn nothing about excessive use of force and brutality from this July?

SIR Update: Residents of Delhi’s Bela Estate slum filled Form 6 last week. Today, bulldozers demolished their settlement again. @AltNews reported that 99% of voters there were excluded from the draft roll. Residents reapplied after repeated displacement. Now, they’ve been displaced again!

They filled form 6 last week and today their settlement was demolished again! 10 days after we reported @AltNews that 99% voters were excluded from Bela Estate slum near Raj Ghat, Delhi, bulldozers arrived at 6am today. As per the ERO, their names were put on the ASDD as they had shifted to a nearby area after multiple demolitions. - They filled forms again for voter roll inclusion with new address under a bridge nearby. Today parts of that place were demolished. The demolition notice barely gave days for them to move. - Jhuggis are gone again. What will be the verification process now? Will the EC include them in the final roll? #SIR Report: altnews.in/bela-estate-farml…

From the news wire services: The Supreme Court on Wednesday referred the petitions challenging the 2023 law governing the appointment process for the Chief Election Commissioners and Election Commissioners to a larger bench, Live Law reports. Even though a two-judge bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma disagreed on whether the matter should be referred, they ultimately ordered that the matter be placed before the CJI for the constitution of a Constitution Bench of appropriate strength, to avoid further delay. The bench observed that referring the matter to a 3-judge bench on the preliminary point of reference would be a time-consuming exercise. While Justice Datta opined the Union's demand for a larger bench reference was unwarranted, Justice Sharma held otherwise. Justice Datta prima facie questioned whether the 2023 law governing the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners provides an independent selection process. Justice Datta observed that the 2023 Act, prima facie, appeared to confer a veto on the Executive, since the appointment process, by a committee comprising the PM, Union Minister and the Leader of Opposition, fails the "perception trust." Justice Datta observed that a nominee of the Prime Minister cannot be expected to vote against the Prime Minister. "Free and fair elections depend on a truly independent ECI. It is not enough for the ECI to be independent; it must appear to be independent. The member nominated by the Prime Minister cannot be expected to defy the Prime Minister," Justice Datta observed.

The Election Commission is three people, not ONE: a Chief and two Election Commissioners, equal in rank. By law they decide together. Unanimously if they can, by majority if they can't. Two of three is a majority. (2/10)

Delhi #SIR: While common citizens suffer, ECI runs a hidden and off-record drive to guarantee that 'VIPs' get on final voter list, by hook or crook. By @ayushikar1998, @ShubhangiJourno, @TweetSumedha & @DikshyaKoirala7. Ed.: @furquansid 1/2. reporters-collective.in/trc/…

#BREAKING #SuprmeCourt Judge Justice Dipankar Datta prima facie expresses that the 2023 law on the appointment of Election Commissioners does not appear to ensure an independent selection process. A nominee of the Prime Minister in the selection committee cannot be expected to defy the PM, Justice Datta says. "Inclusion of cabinet ministers fails to provide an independent counterweight that a neutral selector would. It becomes largely ornamental." "Free and fair elections depend on a truly independent ECI. It is not enough for the ECI to be independent; it must appear to be independent," Justice Datta pronounces.

Important 🚨 In light of the recent exposures regarding the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, CJP leadership has cancelled its programs for tomorrow and will address an important press conference in Delhi on the “Hijacking of India's Democracy” at 12 PM tomorrow.

Unprecedented!!! Great report

In Delhi, the ECI is bending the SIR rules to give an easy pass to the VIP voters. No VIP to be left out, but ordinary citizens can be left behind. @ayushikar1998, @shubhangijourno, @tweetsumedha and @Dikshyakoirala7 report. Edited by @furquansid. 1/3 reporters-collective.in/trc/…