00:01Breaking news coming in at the top of this bulletin.
00:03The Election Commission has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court over Delhi SIR and the issue of work orders.
00:10And in the affidavit, the Election Commission of India has again clarified that there will be no prosecution of persons
00:17filling the Form 6 if they have been left off the SIR rolls.
00:21Boothwise list of deleted voters are being displayed along with reasons for their non-inclusion as well.
00:27This is included in the affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court and the letter issued on November 6 also states
00:33that all steps will be taken to ensure that all voters are enrolled.
00:38So the message of the Election Commission in the Supreme Court is that no eligible voters will be left off
00:43the electoral rolls and that all eligible voters will be included and they will not be left off the SIR
00:50rolls for not filling the Form 6.
00:52For more on this, we have Anisha Mathur joining us.
00:54Anisha, thank you for joining us at this hour.
00:56What more is included in the affidavit submitted by the Election Commission in the Supreme Court?
01:02Well, see, Piksha, we've seen the kind of questions that have been asked with regards to the Delhi SIR and
01:08the question of how the monitoring is being done, what kind of deletions are being done.
01:14The next churning in the Supreme Court is expected on the 19th and before that the supplementary affidavit has come.
01:22Now, this affidavit addresses two things, if you can give me the time to explain this.
01:27One, of course, is the fact that the person who were electors in the earlier rolls but whose names not
01:34appear in the draft election roll during SIR, they will not face any prosecution if they still form 6 again.
01:42In fact, what the Election Commission has clarified in this affidavit and in this letter issued on the 6th of
01:48November is also that if they have shifted within that particular state, they don't need to fill form 8.
01:56They can submit the enumeration form itself with another statement giving their new address and their address proof to the
02:04ERO of the new constituency and they will then be included.
02:08And as far as the ASDB absent, shifted, dead, duplicate voters is concerned, those lists are going to be put
02:17out in public with the reason for deletion so that if anybody has been deleted who was earlier a voter
02:24can get their name put back.
02:26And in fact, the commission has also clarified that the concern that has been raised with regard to the ICT
02:35and IT division is concerned.
02:37That has also been addressed in this particular affidavit where they have said that all decisions are made and the
02:43DVIT puts up files through the Senior Deputy Election Commissioners before the commission itself.
02:50That there is no separate department, the ECI itself is monitoring everything and there is a Deputy Election Commission who
02:58supervises any and all IT decision making.
03:02So all of that has been put in this affidavit now. Now we have to wait and see what happens
03:06next in this hearing when it comes up in the Supreme Court.
03:09Absolutely, we are all awaiting what happens in the next hearing. Thank you Anisha for those details.
03:14So that's the update coming in. The EC has once again assured that there will be no prosecution of persons
03:20filling the Form 6 if they have been left off the SIR rolls.
