Supreme Court issues notice to the Election Commission on the petition against the Special Intensive Revision

16 October 2026

A Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued notice to the Election Commission of India, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi on a writ petition filed by Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi and other INDIA bloc leaders. The petition, Rahul Gandhi v. Election Commission of India, W.P.(C) No. 1351/2026, seeks production of the complete file on the Commission's decision of June 24, 2025 to launch the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. It also asks for booth-wise publication of the names of deleted voters with reasons, a bar on deletion without notice and hearing, an audit committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, and suspension of the revision across all States while the case is pending. The Chief Justice orally remarked that the Court would also ask one of the petitioners about his conduct.