Bengal SIR: Tribunals dispose of over 6,500 appeals so far, allow 61.5% cases back in voter rolls
The appellate tribunals in West Bengal have resolved over 6,500 appeals related to electoral roll revisions, with 61.5% of these cases resulting in names being reinstated. The tribunals were established following Supreme Court directives to address grievances from the revision process. Despite the progress, more than 51,000 appeals remain pending in the two districts of Kolkata.
- ▪A total of 6,581 cases have been disposed of by the tribunals, which is about 0.26% of the nearly 25 lakh appeals filed.
- ▪Out of the disposed cases, 4,043 appeals were allowed, allowing 61.5% of those cases back onto the electoral rolls.
- ▪The tribunals were set up on March 20 following Supreme Court orders to create an appellate mechanism for electoral roll grievances.
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The SIR-linked appellate tribunals in West Bengal have disposed of only 6,581 cases, around 0.26% of the nearly 25 lakh appeals filed against decisions taken by judicial officers during the electoral roll revision exercise, official data showed on Thursday (May 21, 2026).Of the cases decided by 12 of the 19 tribunals till May 14, 4,043 appeals were allowed, meaning names of nearly 61.5% of disposed cases made it back to the electoral rolls, while 1,267 were rejected, according to the Election Commission of India (ECI) data. The status of over 1,200 remaining cases among the disposed matters was not immediately clear from the data.
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