'No judicial diktat on when to clean up electoral rolls'

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has told the Supreme Court that it cannot be judicially directed to carry out special intensive revisions of electoral rolls across the country at fixed intervals, insisting that such decisions fall exclusively within its constitutional and statutory domain.

- HT Correspondent

In an affidavit filed late on Friday, the poll body maintained that Article 324 of the Constitution, read with provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, and the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, vest the authority to prepare and revise electoral rolls solely with the Commission.