Rush Hour: 19% Karnataka voters removed from draft list, Iyer-Mitra summoned in privacy suit & more

More than one crore names were removed from the draft voter list of Karnataka published as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls. The state has 4.4 crore voters in the draft roll as compared to the 5.5 crore before the exercise began in June. The names not included in the draft roll account for 19.4% of the state’s electorate.

Notices will be sent to 43 lakh persons whose enumeration forms either had anomalies or those who had not been mapped, Chief Electoral Officer V Anbukumar said. The claims and objections by voters against their removal from the draft list can be filed between August 24 and September 23. The appeals will be heard by October 22, before the final electoral roll is published on October 27.

Karnataka is among the 16 states where the voter roll revision is being carried out in the third phase of SIR. Read on.

The Delhi High Court summoned political commentator Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, media portals The Pamphlet, Law Beat and The Sunday Guardian, and social media account The Jaipur Dialogues in a privacy suit filed by Cockroach Janta Party spokesperson Saurav Das against his home address and other personal information being revealed online. The defendants have been asked to file their replies within 10 days.

Das alleged that people...

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