Rush Hour: Nearly 1 crore voters deleted in Karnataka, SC hears challenges to privacy law and more

The names of more than 99.3 lakh voters have been deleted from Karnataka’s final voter list following the special intensive revision of electoral rolls. The number of voters fell to 4.5 crore from the 5.5 crore that were on the state’s electoral rolls before the exercise began.

In the final stage of the exercise, more than 8.6 lakh names were reinstated to the draft list. In August, the draft list had excluded over one crore voters.

Persons who applied for inclusion through Form 6 after Friday, when the period for claims and objections ended, will be added through supplementary lists to be published on a quarterly basis. Read on.

Follow Scroll’s coverage of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls here.

The Supreme Court issued notice to the Union government seeking its response to a petition challenging the Digital Personal Data Protection Act and its rules. The petition has been filed by the Digital News Publishers Association, which represents 21 media publishers, including those owned by businesspersons Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani. They said the provisions of the act violated journalistic freedom.

The publishers said that the law “threatens the full spectrum of journalistic activity carried out by journalists, ground reporters, citizens, whistleblowers, Right to Information activists and other stakeholders”.

The law “impermissibly restricts” the...

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