Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has sought a response from the UP State Election Commission over the alleged illegal deletion of the names of 32 persons from the panchayat electoral roll in Balrampur district.The court has also issued notices to 47 persons who were allegedly included in the panchayat voter list wrongfully.A division bench of Justice Alok Mathur and Justice A K Chaudhary passed the order on a writ petition filed by Santosh Kumar and 31 others. The court directed the state govt and the State Election Commission to file their respective affidavits explaining their stand on the matter. The next hearing in the case has been fixed for Dec 15.It may be recalled that, in a separate case, another bench of the high court, presided over by Justice Singh, had sought the State Election Commission’s response over the alleged wrongful deletion of 138 names from the panchayat voter list in Amethi district.During the hearing, the court was informed that the names of 136 out of the 138 persons had been duly restored to the electoral roll. As regards the remaining two petitioners, the authorities stated that their claims for inclusion in the voter list would be considered in accordance with the applicable rules, in view of their marriage.
