Supreme Court issues notice to ECI on SIR petitions, tags them together; orders CCTV footage preserved

In a marathon hearing on October 15, a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued notice to the Election Commission of India, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi on the plea filed by Rahul Gandhi and INDIA bloc leaders challenging the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, tagging it with the other pending SIR matters. "Issuing notice does not mean that we are condemning anything," the CJI observed, adding that one petitioner will have to explain his conduct at the next hearing in connection with the October 12 opposition march to the court. The Court also directed the preservation of CCTV footage and other digital material from the court premises, granted interim protection from coercive action to journalist Rosy, and sought responses on alleged police excesses against protesters, journalists and lawyers, Metro station closures and the denotification of Jantar Mantar as a designated protest site. Read the Times Now, Business Today and Hindustan Times coverage. (Timesnownews, Businesstoday, Hindustan Times)

• In a marathon hearing on October 15, a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued notice to the Election Commission of India, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and
• "Issuing notice does not mean that we are condemning anything," the CJI observed, adding that one petitioner will have to explain his conduct at the next hearing in connection with the October 12 opposition march to the
• The Court also directed the preservation of CCTV footage and other digital material from the court premises, granted interim protection from coercive action to journalist Rosy, and sought responses on alleged police exce