Election Commission of India and others receive court notice

BANGALORE: Karnataka High Court on Wednesday ordered issue of notices to the Union of India, Election Commission of India and Chief Electoral Officer of Karnataka on a PIL seeking to bring some improvement in the revision of electoral rolls in Bangalore graduates constituency.

A division bench headed by Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen ordered issue of notices when the PIL filed by Ashwin Mahesh, a visting professor at the IIM and the IISC came up for hearing.

The Election Commission of India had started revising the electoral rolls for Bangalore Graduates Constituency in November 2011.

The PIL further pointed out that while there were about 22 lakh graduate voters in the city of Bangalore, as on today the registered number of voters is only about 70,000.

The PIL therefore prayed the court to direct the Election Commission to take certain measures to improve the voters' registration.