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[00:00:00]Now the suit thanks for joining me. Now the Supreme Court viewers is set to deliver its verdict on petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the special intensive revision conducted by the Election Commission of India.

[00:00:15]A bench comprising Chief Justice Suriya Kant and Justice Joymala Bagchi will pronounce the judgement today.

[00:00:22]The petitioners moved the court claiming that the Election Commission lacks the authority under Article 326 of the Constitution, the representation of the people act 1950 and the rules framed under it to conduct the SR exercise in such a large scale.

[00:00:39]The top court had reserved its judgement on January 29 after hearing detailed arguments from both the petitioners and the poll panel.

[00:00:48]Among those who moved the court against the exercise was the NGO Association for Democratic Reforms which argued that the ECI lacks the constitutional and statutory authority to conduct such a large scale revision.

[00:01:03]During the hearings the Supreme Court declined to stay the ongoing SR process but clarified that it would examine the larger legal question of whether the ECI possess the authority to carry out such an exercise. The bench had also observed that even if the final electoral rolls were published, the court would still be free to intervene if it found any illegality in the process. And Sambhav Sharma is joining me with the latest developments.

[00:01:33]Sambhav, what can you tell us?

[00:01:36]Detail I mean after detailed hearing in the SR process, the Supreme Court reserved its judgement and today that top court is going to deliver its ruling on the petitions challenging validity of this SR special intensive revision exercise conducted by the Election Commission of India. And in our way it is it is going to be interesting to see what the top court is to say because the top court bench of Justice Chief Justice of India Suryakant and Justice Jamal Awasti earlier in January reserved the judgement after hearing arguments on I mean on several days I mean which the hearing underwent in the Supreme Court for around 3 months. Now the batch of petitions were led by the ADR and the PUCL along with petitions filed by many opposition leaders and challenged the legality and the validity of the operational framework of this special intensive revision exercise initiated by the Election Commission of India in this state of Bihar and later on extended to several other states and union territories including the states of West Bengal. And the main contentions of the petitioners here in the Supreme Court was I mean that the timing, the manner and the scale of the exercise was the bonus contention where on one hand ECI was saying that under Article 324 of Indian Constitution All right, Sambhav. Thanks for joining me. I have Advocate Ashwini Dubey, a Supreme Court lawyer, joining me.

[00:03:27]Advocate Dubey, the Supreme Court is set to deliver its verdict on petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the SIR conducted by the Election Commission. What would you like to say on it and how will this proceed?

[00:03:46]We're going to try and reconnect with Advocate Dubey very shortly, viewers, but the Supreme Court, as I was telling you earlier, is set to deliver its verdict on petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the SIR conducted by the Election Commission of India.

[00:04:02]A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymala Bagchi will pronounce the judgment today.

[00:04:09]The petitioners moved the court claiming that the Election Commission lacks the authority under Article 326 of the Constitution, the Representation of the People Act 1950, and the rules framed under it to conduct SIR exercise on such a large scale.

[00:04:27]The top court had reserved its judgment on January 29 after hearing detailed arguments from both the petitioners and the poll panel, and I have Advocate Ashwini Dubey. He's a Supreme Court lawyer joining me. Advocate Dubey, the Supreme Court is set to deliver its verdict on petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the SIR. Now, what do you have to say on it, and how do you think this will proceed?

[00:04:52]The honorable Supreme Court hearing the batch of petition, the petitions wherein the SIR exercise undertaken by the uh Election Commission of India was challenged before the Supreme Court by various petitioners on the ground that the timing of that SIR is contrary to the basic object of the Constitution, and SIR has been brought in order to exclude those who are not favoring a particular uh who are not the voters of the particular government or ruling station, and arbitrarily the name is being deleted of the genuine voter.

[00:05:26]So, uh the honorable Supreme Court in a marathon hearing a number of occasions have already because the election has taken over, and uh now the government has also been formed. Only thing is that honorable Supreme Court will see that whether the SIR exercise was undertaken by the Election Commission of India is under sweep of the Constitution or beyond the ambit of the Constitution or timing was wrong. Let's see what judgment comes. So, it will be a landmark judgment of the honorable Supreme Court. Honorable Supreme Court has made various observations, have allowed various voters who were deleted, whose name was deleted arbitrarily. So, they are the they are fundamentals which will be fixed by the honorable Supreme Court.

[00:06:05]Certain guidelines will be issued. Let's see what the outcome comes. We'll discuss thereafter.

[00:06:10]Thank you, Mr. Dube, for joining me. And with that, viewers, it's time for a short commercial break. We'll be back on the other side with a lot more. Stay with us.