04
Oct
New Delhi(Gurpreet Singh) — Delivering a sharp critique amid an escalating controversy over the alleged deletion of more than 130 million voters during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday declared that any mechanism causing wholesale disenfranchisement of citizens is intrinsically arbitrary and amounts to a negation of the constitutional order. Speaking at NALSAR University of Law, Justice Bhuyan emphasized that no administrative authority possesses the mandate to strip citizens of their franchise, nor could any judicial bench condone such action. Justice Bhuyan underlined that the Indian Constitution guarantees a single…
