The Supreme Court on Tuesday verbally observed that the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls had been conducted smoothly in all states except in West Bengal, Live Law reported.

A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a batch of petitions against the special intensive revision in the state. During the hearing, the chief justice said that he had read an article about the exercise across the country.

“Apart from West Bengal, everywhere it happened smoothly,” Bar and Bench quoted Kant as saying.

In response, advocate Kalyan Banerjee, representing the West Bengal government, said that certain developments in the state were unusual. He said that the Election Commission had not published a “logical discrepancy” list or issued administrative notifications at unusual hours during the process in other states.

“Logical discrepancies” flagged by the poll panel during the voter list revision included mismatches in parents’ names, low age gap with parents and the number of children of the parents being above six.

However, the chief justice noted that there had been equally complicated problems in other states, but the revision “by and large” went on smoothly there, Live Law reported.

The bench also noted the pressure on judicial officers tasked with adjudicating claims in the state. “Do you realise we have put so much pressure on the judicial...

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