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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

‘Strikes at very heart of Constitution’: SC judge Ujjal Bhuyan on SIR mass voter deletions

Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan said on Sunday that any process that disenfranchised millions of Indian citizens was “intrinsically arbitrary” and amounted to a negation of the constitutional order, stressing that no authority was above the Constitution.

Speaking at the valedictory session of the 19th Justice Bodh Raj Sawhney Memorial Moot Court Competition at NALSAR University of Law, Bhuyan said the Constitution did not envisage two classes of citizens, which are: those with voting rights and those without them.

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