Overview
- Orders assign district and additional district judges to decide claims and objections, with their decisions deemed court orders and supported by ECI and state officials.
- The Calcutta High Court convened top state and election authorities to set up the mechanism, and reports indicate a plan to appoint about 250 judicial officers for the task.
- The court allowed the Election Commission to publish names already processed on February 28 as a provisional roll, with supplementary lists to follow after adjudication.
- Officials were directed to provide security and logistics to judicial officers, and the High Court moved to shift urgent matters as judicial resources are redeployed.
- The scale remains vast, with about 58 lakh deletions in the December draft, roughly 1.2 crore flagged for ‘logical discrepancies,’ and preliminary estimates of 45–50 lakh cases for judicial review as leave for judicial officers is cancelled until March 9.