EC can delete doubtful voters, cannot decide citizenship: Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from West Bengal and Election Commission to a PIL which alleged that the state govt was denying benefits of social welfare schemes, including ration, to people whose names were deleted from the voter list because of doubtful citizenship during special intensive revision (SIR).On a PIL by Prasenjit Bose, chairperson of WB Pradesh Congress Committee and convenor of Joint Forum against NRC, a bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana said EC had the constitutional power to delete a person's name from the voter list if his/her citizenship was doubtful."But EC cannot determine whether a person is a citizen of India or not. While dealing with SIR in Bihar and West Bengal, we had repeatedly said that EC