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In a supplementary list, the Election Commission added 136 voters to the electoral rolls in West Bengal whose appeals were accepted by the appellate tribunals. However, 27 lakh appeals filed by persons who have been excluded are pending.
As the first phase of the Assembly elections in the state will be held on Thursday, the approval rate of appeals was 98.5%, as only 138 cases had been decided on by the tribunals so far as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls. Read on.
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The Calcutta High Court asked the Election Commission why it needed to order the arrest of alleged “troublemakers” ahead of the Assembly elections in West Bengal. The court was hearing a plea by an advocate who claimed that he had found out about the list from “multiple credible, trustworthy and independent sources”.
The plea claimed that the purported list largely contains the names of the Trinamool Congress’ workers, leaders and elected officials.
The counsel representing the Election Commission told the court that there were “emergent circumstances” that required such measures, adding that the information was sensitive and could not be disclosed at the moment. Read on.
The Election Commission has directed that “outsiders” have been barred from the housing societies designated as polling booths for the West Bengal polls. “No outsiders who are not electors of that constituency can stay as guests in residential complexes where booths are located,” said the poll panel.
The restriction will remain in place until the end of the second phase of voting. Read on.
Iran opened fire on three container ships in the Strait of Hormuz hours after United States President Donald Trump said that he was extending the ceasefire with Tehran. Trump said the US will “hold our attack on the country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal”.
However, Mahdi Mohammadi, advisor to the speaker of the Iranian Parliament, said that the extension of the ceasefire “means nothing”. “The losing side cannot dictate terms,” he asserted. Read on.
The Bombay High Court quashed an order passed by a special court for framing of charges against four men accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case. They were the last remaining persons accused in the matter.
The special court had in September ordered that Manohar Narwaria, Rajendra Chaudhary, Dhan Singh and Lokesh Sharma be charged for murder and criminal conspiracy, and under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
On September 8, 2006, bomb blasts took place near a mosque and a cemetery in Maharashtra’s Malegaon in which 31 persons were killed. The case is not linked to the 2008 Malegaon blast in which Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pragya Singh Thakur, Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit and five others were acquitted in July. Read on.
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