Chief Justice Surya Kant clarified on Monday that the Supreme Court has not approved any revised format of Form-6 being used to include names in the voter list during the Special Intensive Revision. During the hearing of a petition seeking prosecution of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, the CJI said, “We have not approved any such form. Let us make this clear. When the records are before us, we will want to see who made the changes.”
The Chief Justice’s comment is significant because it was claimed that the new declaration form attached with the online Form-6 during the Special Intensive Revision being conducted in some states had the Supreme Court’s approval.
Following this, the Election Commission issued a press release on September 26, indicating that the Supreme Court had upheld the new Form-6 declaration form in the May 2026 Supreme Court decision related to the Special Intensive Revision in Bihar.
However, in that decision related to the Bihar Special Intensive Revision, the Supreme Court did not have the opportunity to examine the new Form-6 declaration, as the new format was implemented after the decision.
The new declaration requires a person registering as a new voter to state whether they or their parents were added to or marked as voters in the previous Special Intensive Revision. The previously used Form-6 did not ask for such information.
During the hearing, the Chief Justice told senior advocate Maneka Guruswamy that the prayers in the petition appeared to be broad and “convoluted.” He stated that he stood by the prayers in the petition. The Supreme Court then issued notice on the petition and tagged it with a similar case challenging the Election Commission’s decisions.