Petitioners’ Request to Transfer Records via Form‑8 Rejected

The petitioners, including Nilotpal Dutta, argued that the ECI should allow existing voters whose names were deleted in the SIR to transfer their records to a new address using Form 8. The court found no merit in the request, emphasizing that Form 6 is the appropriate channel for re‑registration and that the ECI’s guidelines under the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, support this approach.