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SC seeks Centre, EC reply on undertrials voting rights PIL
Orissa POST
|October 11, 2025
The Supreme Court Friday sought responses of the Centre and the Election Commission on a PIL seeking recognition of voting rights for nearly 4.5 lakh undertrial prisoners lodged in jails across India.
A bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran took note of the submissions of lawyer Prashant Bhushan that the present blanket ban imposed under Section 62(5) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, violates constitutional guarantees and international democratic norms.
The petition filed by Sunita Sharma, a resident of Patiala in Punjab, made the Centre, through the Ministry of Law and Justice and the Election Commission, as respondents.
“This petition concerns the voting rights of about 4,50,000 pretrial, under-trial, and non-finally convicted prisoners (excluding those prisoners who are in prisons for corrupt practices and offences connected with elections),” it said.
This story is from the October 11, 2025 edition of Orissa POST.
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