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Appellate tribunals set up as part of the special intensive revision process in West Bengal allowed 1,468 names to be added back to the electoral rolls, a day ahead of the second phase of the state Assembly election. These electors will be able to vote on Wednesday.

It is unclear how many cases could be heard by the tribunals before the polling begins for the second phase of West Bengal elections. Earlier, the Election Commission had said that the 19 appellate tribunals had received 34 lakh applications. Of these, seven lakh were against names being included in the rolls and 27 lakh were filed by persons who were excluded. Read on.

Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia said that he too “will not participate” personally or through a lawyer before a Delhi High Court bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma. The judge is hearing the Central Bureau of Investigation’s challenge to him and several others being discharged in the liquor policy case.

This came a day after party chief Arvind Kejriwal said that he would not appear before Sharma. In his letter to the judge, Sisodia said that his doubts about her impartiality in the case stood unresolved, adding that he was in “respectful agreement” with the position taken by Kejriwal.

On April 20, Sharma rejected a plea filed by Sisodia and others that she recuse herself from hearing the case. The petition had raised concerns about her “perceived ideological proximity”, referring to Sharma attending events of an organisation linked to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Read on.

The Delhi High Court granted interim bail for one week to jailed Lok Sabha MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh to visit his critically ill father. Sheikh, who is popularly known as Engineer Rashid, has been in jail since August 2019 in connection with a terror-funding case filed by the National Investigation Agency. He has been held under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

On April 24, a Delhi court dismissed the Baramulla MP’s petition for interim bail, after which he approached the High Court.

Noting that Sheikh has been in jail for more than six years, the High Court on Tuesday allowed the MP to visit his father. The court directed that the MP be accompanied by two police officials in plain clothes. It also said that he remain at the hospital or at the house where his father is present. Read on.

An Adivasi man in Odisha exhumed his sister’s body and took her skeletal remains to a bank branch to prove that she had died two months ago, so that he could withdraw money that was deposited in her name. The incident occurred at the Maliposi branch of the Odisha Grameen Bank, a regional rural bank sponsored by the Indian Overseas Bank.

The police said that bank officials failed to explain the correct procedure for withdrawing the money to the man. Jeetu Munda, was seeking to withdraw Rs 20,000 from the account of his elder sister Kalra Munda, who died on January 26. He said that bank officials repeatedly told him “to bring the account holder to withdraw money deposited in her name”, even though he told them that she was dead.

The man said he eventually exhumed her body “out of frustration”. The police later took away the skeletal remains and buried them again. Read on.

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