Panaji: The Bombay High Court on Thursday said that the primary mandate of the Election Commission is to ensure citizens cast their votes, and asserted that while the election body questions voter conduct, citizens are equally within their rights to ask why exercises like the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) are ordered after decades.
Hearing a petition filed by six family members whose names were deleted from the voter list, the HC's Goa bench, comprising Justices Valmiki Menezes and Amit S Jamsandekar, said the ECI's action was not in consonance with its mandate.
