cross-border migration may imply Citizenship check in s.i.r.: Sc
New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that the idea of verifying citizenship may not be alien to the notification for holding special intensive revision (SIR) as the term migration - one of the grounds cited by the Election Commission of India (ECI) for revising rolls - may also include cross-border migration.
Hearing arguments in an ongoing proceeding where the SIR in Bihar has been challenged in a bunch of petitions accusing the ECI of disenfranchising citizens on mere suspicion of citizenship, a bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and justice Joymalya Bagchi said, "Migration can be trans-country. It may not be within the country alone."
The court was responding to senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, appearing...
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