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The Supreme Court remarked that in West Bengal, the Election Commission appeared to have deviated from the special intensive revision procedure that it had adopted in other states. This was done by introducing a new category of “logical discrepancy”, it verbally observed.

However, the bench said it could not allow persons whose appeals against exclusion from the voter list are pending before tribunals to vote in the Assembly polls. More than 34 lakh such appeals have been filed so far, it noted.

In the revision of the electoral rolls, logical discrepancies refer to a mismatch in parents’ names, low age gap with parents and the number of children of the parents being more than six.

The court also said that the poll panel had deviated from its stand in Bihar that individuals mapped in the 2002 voter rolls would not need to upload documents. It added that there needs to be a “robust appellate mechanism” to hear appeals by persons removed from the electoral rolls. Read on.

Violence erupted in Noida at a protest by factory workers seeking wage hikes. Videos shared on social media showed some protesters throwing stones and vandalising property, and security personnel trying to bring the situation under control. The protests led to traffic jams on several key roads in the city on Monday morning.

A large number of workers from several industrial units had gathered in parts of Noida to press long-standing demands that their salaries be increased. The protests began last week after Haryana increased monthly minimum wages to Rs 19,000 from Rs 14,000.

They also expressed concerns about unsafe workplaces, the lack of weekly holidays and grievance redressal mechanisms. Read on.

Iran said that the United States’ naval blockade, which will take effect at 7.30 pm Indian time on Monday, would be illegal and amount to piracy. The Iranian military warned that no port in the Gulf region and the Arabian Sea would be safe if its own were threatened.

The blockade is aimed at maritime traffic linked to Iran and ships travelling to or from non-Iranian ports will be allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the US military said. Read on.

The Supreme Court issued notices to the Election Commission and the Union government on a public interest litigation seeking fingerprint and iris-based biometric identification at polling stations to prevent electoral malpractices. The petition was filed by lawyer and Bharatiya Janata Party member Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.

The court said that on a preliminary reading, the nature of the petition’s demands could not be considered for the ongoing elections. However, it added that “whether such a recourse deserves to be followed for the next parliamentary elections and/or elections of state legislatures needs to be examined”.

At the hearing, the petitioner argued that the system could be introduced in future elections to curb practices such as proxy voting and the inducement of voters. The bench noted that the proposal would require rules to be changed and involve a significant financial burden to the exchequer. Read on.

The Assam government approached the Supreme Court challenging a Telangana High Court order that granted transit anticipatory bail for one week to Congress leader Pawan Khera in a case registered by the Assam Police.

The High Court had granted relief to Khera on Friday after he approached it seeking protection following a first information report filed by Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, wife of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. The FIR was filed after the Congress leader claimed on April 5 that he had documentary evidence that showed that Riniki Bhuyan Sarma holds three foreign passports. Himanta Biswa Sarma and his wife refuted the allegations. Read on.

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