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Judgement delivered, paradox prevails: every voter a citizen, but what is the fate of 51.8 million excluded?

The Supreme Court’s May 27, 2026 verdict upholding the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) settles the legal question of constitutional authority but leaves unresolved concerns on absence of due process and independent functioning by the ECI, the arbitrary abuse of process and access: questions of unreasonable and unchecked mass deletions etc.

Supreme Court to hear pleas challenging constitutional validity of CAA

CJI UU Lalit led bench to hear a batch of over 200 related pleas on September 12

Khwaja Yunus custodial death case: Sessions Court dismisses Asiya Begum’s plea to add four more policemen as accused

Yunus had been allegedly killed in police custody; his mother has been part of a prolonged legal battle to demand justice for him

Umar Khalid bail plea: Prosecution concludes arguments before Delhi HC

Excerpts of Amravati speech read in court; rebuttals to be heard on September 9

‘Astonishing’, Need White Paper on Remission in Bilkis Bano: Justice Madan Lokur

The former justice of the Supreme Court says how the remission came about needs to be closely examined.

Nearly 9,000 people participate in signature campaign to demand justice for Bilkis Bano

Feminist groups had sent 8,320 signatures to the Supreme Court Chief Justice on Tuesday; now with 630 new signatures, the tally is now close to 9,000 and growing

Lakhimpur Kheri case: Supreme Court issues notice to UP government on Ashish Mishra’s bail plea

Matter to be heard on September 26; high court had previously dubbed the killings as "cruel and inhuman"

Bilkis Bano case: Convicts’ whereabouts unknown even as SC prepares to hear petitions challenging remission of sentences

Meanwhile, lawyer of convicts claims Centre enabled grant of remission of sentences to 11 convicts

Babri Mosque demolition case: CBI files objections in acquittal matter

Says petitioners don’t have right to appeal as they were not victims

Elgar Case: Special NIA Court Denies Bail to Activist Gautam Navlakha

Navlakha pleas says he has been in jail since April 14, 2020, and there was no need to keep him in custody as the probe into the case has been completed.

Signatures collected in support of justice for Bilkis Bano to be sent to the Chief Justice of India

Citizens’ signatures were collected to demand cancellation of remission of sentence granted by Gujarat Government to 11 people convicted in the Bilkis Bano case

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Jharkhand brings together many of the communities most vulnerable to bureaucratic exclusion—migrants, Adivasis, displaced families and informal workers. The Special Intensive Revision will therefore be far more than a routine electoral exercise. The question is not only who gets verified, but whether those already on the margins are asked once again to prove their place in India's democracy