India’s Supreme Court agreed on October 26, 2026, to examine a challenge to the special intensive revision of Maharashtra voter rolls, issuing notices to the central government, the Election Commission of India and others.

Maharashtra voter rolls in dispute

The petition was filed by Arun Anandagiri, a chartered accountant and journalist. A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant, with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, scheduled the matter for November 5.

Senior advocate Arvind Datar, appearing for Anandagiri, said voters temporarily relocated during redevelopment in Mumbai and Pune had been deleted as people not found. He also said about 12.2 million electors had been struck off under “logical discrepancies.”

Petition seeks to pause revision

The petition asks that the revision be kept in abeyance until the court decides the matter and that no voter on the pre-revision list be excluded or deleted. The court issued notices but the source does not report that it granted those requests.

Maharashtra’s chief electoral officer’s office said 20,688,487 of the state’s 97,854,049 registered voters, or 21.14%, were excluded from the draft rolls because they could not be traced at their given addresses during the exercise.

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