Read what Rahul Gandhi and other petitioners have demanded from Supreme Court
Babushahi Network
New Delhi, October 13, 2026: In their petition filed in Supreme Court by Rahul Gandhi and others have appealed the Supreme Court to
(a) Issue a writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order or direction directing Respondent No. 1, the Election Commission of India, to place on record the complete files, agendas, minutes, notings and objections recorded by the Election Commissioners in respect of each of the disputed decisions relating to the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, together with the relevant ECINET and ERONET access logs and the complete file recording the decision dated 24 June 2025 to commence the Special Intensive Revision across the country in enforcement of the rights under Article 14,19 and 21 read with Article 324 of the Constitution of India;
(b) Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction directing an examination of whether the disputed decisions relating to the Special Intensive Revision were taken in compliance with Article 324 of the Constitution of India, Section 18 of the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023, and the law declared by this Hon’ble Court in T.N. Seshan v. Union of India, (1995) 4 SCC 611, and, upon finding any decision to have been taken without lawful authority, quash and/or set aside such decision;
(c) Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction directing the competent authorities to take appropriate action against the persons responsible for any breach of the constitutional or statutory provisions governing the preparation and revision of electoral rolls, including under Section 32 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, wherever warranted;
(d) Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction directing Respondent No. 1, pending adjudication of the present Petition and the connected matters, to ensure that every decision of the Election Commission relating to the Special Intensive Revision is taken and duly minuted in accordance with Section 18 of the 2023 Act;
(e) Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction directing Respondent No. 1 to ensure that the online Form 6 conforms to the form prescribed under the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, unless and until the said Rules are lawfully amended in accordance with the applicable procedure;
(f) Constitute an independent committee headed by a retired Judge of this Hon’ble Court and assisted by technical experts and other citizens of eminence, to conduct, within a fixed time, an independent audit of the deletions and modifications made during the Special Intensive Revision and of access to, and alterations made in, the electoral-roll databases, including ECINET and ERONET; and further direct the said committee to undertake a thorough review of the decisions, policies, procedures, protocols, technical designs and architecture relating to the use and deployment of Electronic Voting Machines, with reference to global best practices and in furtherance of the imperatives of free and fair elections;
(g) Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction directing Respondent No. 2 to publish, booth-wise, the names of all electors deleted during the Special Intensive Revision, together with the reasons for each deletion and a breakdown of deletions by gender and age, and to provide an effective and functional mechanism for restoring the names of electors found eligible for inclusion in the electoral rolls;
(h) Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction directing the Respondents to ensure that no elector is deleted from the electoral roll without notice and a reasonable opportunity of hearing in accordance with law, and to ensure that eligible persons in Punjab and other States going to the polls are permitted to seek inclusion in the electoral rolls until the last date permitted by law;
(i) Issue an interim direction suspending the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls across the States of the Union, pending consideration and adjudication of the issues raised in the present Petition, in the interests of protecting the rights of eligible electors and preserving the integrity of the electoral process;
(j) Pass such other or further order(s) as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the present case, in order to protect the integrity of the electoral process and the right of every eligible citizen to vote.
And for this act of kindness, the petitioner, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.