Supreme Court trashes Telangana Congress leader’s plea against ECI

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea for initiation of contempt proceedings against Election Commission officials for not making “clarificatory” changes in its forms which seek Aadhaar numbers for enrolling new voters and updating details of old ones.

In September last year, the Election Commission (EC) had told the



top court that it would make “clarificatory” changes in its forms meant for adding new voters and updating records of old ones in the electoral roll, keeping in mind that providing Aadhaar numbers for voter ID cards is optional.

The poll panel had come out with a new rule on linking Aadhaar with voter lists to weed out duplicate entries.