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Opposition leaders marched from Connaught Place towards the Supreme Court on October 12 after the Chief Justice declined to meet them.
Police stopped the march at Bhagwan Dass Marg, more than a kilometre from the court.
A petition challenging the special intensive revision of electoral rolls was filed in the evening.
It seeks an audit of deletions and an interim suspension of the revision.
The Election Commission’s response was not reported.
Leaders of the Shiv Sena (UBT), CPI(M), CPI, JMM, NCP (SP) and the Indian Union Muslim League are also among the petitioners, according to Inkl’s report.
The petition alleges large-scale deletions of voters and irregularities in the revision. These are the petitioners’ allegations and the reports do not say they were verified.
It asks for an independent committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge to audit deletions and modifications in the electoral roll databases, according to the same reports.
It also seeks an interim suspension of the ongoing SIR until the matter is decided, and seeks action against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, according to the reports.
The reports published on Monday did not describe the Election Commission’s response to the petition.
India TV reported that the court could take up the petition on Tuesday, October 13, but the reports did not confirm that the case had been listed.
The petition was filed after the leaders marched from Connaught Place towards the Supreme Court, according to The Tribune’s live blog.
Police stopped the march at a barricade on Bhagwan Dass Marg, more than a kilometre from the court, according to PTI reports quoted in the same live blog.
Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav climbed on a vehicle to address the crowd, according to the live blog. The march did not reach the Supreme Court.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Tejashwi Yadav, D Raja, Supriya Sule, Sanjay Raut and Dipankar Bhattacharya were among the leaders present, according to the Tribune live blog.
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