Neither approved nor disapproved, Supreme Court clarifies stance on Form 6 alterations

BLOs distribute enumerations forms during a SIR drive. Photo used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: The Hindu

The Supreme Court on Monday (October 12, 2026) clarified that it had neither approved nor disapproved the controversial alterations made to Form 6 in its May 27 judgment, which was entirely about the legality of the pilot Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in Bihar.

The Court said the May 27 ruling pre-dated the changes made to Form 6.

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The changes and modified declarations, which required applicants to provide ancestry details or linkage to previous SIR rolls on the ECINet portal, were introduced subsequently in July.

“When the Bihar SIR issue was heard and decided, the new Form 6 was not there. The new Form 6 was neither approved nor disapproved by us. But we will examine it now,” Justice Joymalya Bagchi, who is part of the Bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant, observed orally.

The remarks came in response to a petition filed by Priya Mishra against the Union government challenging the alterations made to Form 6 to register new voters during the SIR exercises undertaken across multiple States.