Bengal SIR: Tribunals dispose of over 6,500 appeals so far, allow 61.5% cases back in voter rolls

Key points

• The SIR-linked appellate tribunals in West Bengal have disposed of only 6,581 cases, around 0.26% of the nearly 25 lakh appeals filed against decisions taken by judicial officers during the electoral roll revision exercise, official data showed on Thursday (May 21, 2026).
• Of the cases decided by 12 of the 19 tribunals till May 14, 4,043 appeals were allowed, meaning names of nearly 61.5% of disposed cases made it back to the electoral rolls, while 1,267 were rejected, according to the Election Commission of India (ECI) data.
• The status of over 1,200 remaining cases among the disposed matters was not immediately clear from the data.
• The tribunals were constituted on March 20, following Supreme Court directions to establish an appellate mechanism for grievances arising out of the revision process.
• Kolkata North and Kolkata South together accounted for 1,777 disposals, making up around 27% of the total cases decided so far....