'May need more than 1,000 judicial officers'
Kolkata, Feb. 25 -- West Bengal may need more than 1,000 judicial officers to adjudicate the six million pending cases of unmapped voters and logical discrepancies arising out of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, a senior official of the Election Commission said on Tuesday.
"At least 60,06,075 cases of unmapped voters and logical discrepancies are pending, which judicial officers need to dispose of. Around 250 judicial officers have started working since Monday afternoon. The state may need around 1,000 - 1,200 judicial officers to adjudicate the cases in time," the EC official said.
In a parallel development, the Supreme Court on Tuesday authorised the chief justice of the Calcutta high court to draw addi...
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