India, Jan. 14 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that its power to determine citizenship as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is only for the purpose of electoral rolls and does not cross paths with the Centre, which has the authority for deportation. Responding to a key argument in a clutch of petitions against the SIR that ECI has no role to decide citizenship, the poll panel said, "The ECI is vested with the purpose of verifying if a person is a citizen only for the purpose of the electoral roll. It is not that the decision of the ECI will lead to deportation. The only result will be that they will not be eligible to be registered on the roll."P11
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