‘Can’t change orders every day’: SC refuses to hear pleas of poll staff excluded from voter rolls in Bengal | India News
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain pleas seeking its intervention over allegations that certain officials deputed for election duty were excluded from voter rolls in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections.A bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant told the petitioners to approach the appropriate appellate tribunal, observing that the court could not “change its orders every day.”“Please raise the problem before the Appellate Tribunal. We can’t change our orders every day,” the CJI said during the hearing, as quoted by ANI.However, during the proceedings, Justice Joymalya Bagchi observed that regardless of whether they are able to vote in the current elections, the more significant issue of their continued inclusion in the electoral rolls would be examined by the court.Counsel representing the petitioners argued that even individuals engaged in election duty are entitled to vote, prompting the court’s observation that the matter should be pursued through the prescribed legal mechanism.
