Supreme Court on Form 6: What the order means for voters

The Supreme Court has said it did not approve any modified Form 6.

Form 6 is used to apply for inclusion in the electoral roll.

The disputed part is a declaration about whether applicants or their parents were mapped in the previous revision.

The court has asked the Election Commission to produce records.

The reports did not say what happens to applications already filed.

The petition was tagged with related pleas challenging Election Commission decisions, including a public interest litigation filed by a Patna resident on similar grounds.

Form 6 is the form that eligible citizens use to apply for inclusion in the electoral roll.

The disputed change is a new declaration attached to the online Form 6.

It asks applicants to state whether they or their parents were mapped in the previous SIR.

Open magazine reported that the declaration is absent from the forms used in other states.

The Election Commission had said that the Supreme Court approved the new declaration, and Daily Pioneer reported that the commission’s statement came on September 26.

According to Daily Pioneer, the Commission linked the approval to the court’s May 2026 judgment on the Special Intensive Revision in Bihar.

The plea was filed by advocate Shailendra Mani Tripathi and argued by senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy, according to Open magazine.

The plea seeks action against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and other officials over the changes, according to the same report.

The reports available on October 5 and 6 did not include a response from the Election Commission to the Chief Justice’s remarks.

The Special Intensive Revision is the process by which the Election Commission re-verifies electoral rolls state by state.

The revision has been the subject of petitions in the Supreme Court and of street protests, including a demonstration in Delhi on October 2.

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