Chief Justice Surya Kant said the Supreme Court had not approved modifications to voter Form 6 and would examine who changed the form after an Election Commission report.
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said on 5 October that the Supreme Court had not approved any modifications to Form 6, the enrolment form for new voters. The remark came while a three-judge bench heard petitions concerning Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Business Standard reported that the chief justice said any modified Form 6 had not been approved by the court and that the bench wanted to see who had modified it when the record was produced. The court said it would examine the change after receiving a report from the Election Commission.
Form 6 is the statutory application for people newly eligible to vote. The Indian Express has reported that an online version on the ECINET system added a declaration tied to the Special Intensive Revision, asking whether the applicant or a parent or grandparent appeared on an earlier roll.
The Election Commission said in a 26 September statement that the declaration attached to Form 6 had been upheld by the Supreme Court, pointing to a 27 May 2026 judgment on the revision in Bihar. Monday's oral observation contradicted that claim of approval for the modified form.
The bench has not yet issued a final order on who authorised the change. Critics have argued the extra declaration could burden first-time voters whose families were not on older rolls.