Farasat addressed the Court on whether the ECI can determine citizenship of a person through SIR.
“It is entirely within the discretion of the Government. In the absence of a register of citizens, the question that necessarily arises is: how does any authority, including the Election Commission, go about determining citizenship, assuming it seeks to test citizenship as a requirement? That is the core issue,” Farasat said.
Sen argued that ECI had not revealed any material or reasoning for carrying out the SIR.
“Election Commission’s own publication shows that a summary revision had already been completed and that issues of addition and deletion had been addressed. In that situation,…