26-Year-Old Man Claims Name Deleted From Goa Voter List Despite SIR Mapping; to Move HC

‘Citizens Excluded, Then What Is SIR For?’ Bombay HC Raps EC Over Goa Voter Deletions

<p>The Bombay High Court on Monday questioned the Election Commission over how Paresh Salgaonkar and his family of five were deleted from Goa’s electoral rolls despite being Indian citizens and submitting Form 8 for a change of address.</p> <p>The two-judge bench of Justices Valmiki Menezes and Amit Jamsandekar asked the EC how citizens could be excluded through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.</p> <p>“...the Election Commission ha…

‘If citizens being removed, what is purpose of SIR?’ Bombay High Court asks Election Commission

Bombay High Court at Goa slammed ECI over an SIR 'Catch-22'

Goa case of 97 voters: One day after Express report, deleted voters asked to submit Form 6

Three brothers in Taleigao are among the 97 removed voters. A day after the Indian Express report, a BLO handed them Form 6.

Goa CEO fact-checks ‘97 valid voters’ claim by Indian Express

The Goa Chief Electoral Officer’s latest status report has put a major question mark over The Indian Express’ claim that 97 “valid Goa voters” were wrongly left out of the electoral roll. The official update says 88 cases have since been processed through Form 6, while three of the remaining nine were found to be Portuguese passport holders and six are currently residing outside India. The development directly complicates the framing of the Indi…

Goa SIR: 88 of 97 left-out voters re-included after Form 6; 3 of remaining 9 hold Portuguese passports

Officials said three of the remaining voters were Portuguese passport holders, while six were living abroad and officials were trying to contact them.

Of 97 left out in Goa, 88 are back, 3 others are Portuguese citizens: EC

NEW DELHI: The office of the Goa chief electoral officer on Thursday said 88 of the 97 voters in the state whose names could not be included in the roll