Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Justice is crying behind doors: Mamata tells Supreme Court
Supreme Court Hearing on Mamata Banerjee Plea Against West Bengal SIR Today LIVE News Updates: Banerjee may make history as the first sitting CM to personally argue a case before the Supreme Court.
by Vineet Upadhyay · The Indian Express · JoinMamata Banerjee vs Election Commission of India, SC West Bengal SIR Hearing Verdict Today Live Updates: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to appear before the Supreme Court today, seeking permission to personally argue her petition challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being undertaken by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
The matter will be heard by a bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi.
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Banerjee has moved an interlocutory application seeking leave to address the court in person and will be present in the court number 1 along with her legal team, as confirmed by a gate pass issued in her name.
Banerjee had earlier approached the apex court under Article 32 of the Constitution, assailing the SIR exercise.
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Feb 4, 2026 01:36 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata submits
Banerjee: I convey my regards to the court. Safe democracy, she says.
Feb 4, 2026 01:35 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata submits
Banerjee: Only for Bengal they appointed these micro observers to bulldoze the people of Bengal.
Feb 4, 2026 01:32 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata submits
Banerjee: It’s a WhatsApp Commission (EC) where micro observers are allowed to overrule BLO and delete names sitting in office.
CM makes an argument that micro observers are appointed from BJP ruled states and names are being unilaterally deleted.
Feb 4, 2026 01:29 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata submits
The CM says the process is 'anti-women'. They are not allowing the domicile certificates, she submits.
Feb 4, 2026 01:26 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata submits
Mamata: Their SIR process is only for deletion, not for inclusion
Feb 4, 2026 01:26 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata submits
Mamata questions what was the hurry? "What takes two years is happening in three months. More than 100 people died. Many BLOs committed suicide," she says. Bengal is targeted. Why not Assam?
CJI: Madam Mamata, let me clarify two-three things, about the Adhaar card, this matter is about SIR validity issue. It is being argued before us for the last two months. We have reserved the judgment therefore we are not in a position to comment with regard to credibility or admissibility about the adhaar. that issue has been argued and we have reserved judgment.
CJI: Second you have pointed out the issue of discrepancy. In this case one way can be you can give a team of officers, the EC can take them that those can also be part of the EC team, verify whether it is a spelling mistake or it is only because of local dialect
Feb 4, 2026 01:25 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata submits
Banerjee says there are people working in offices are transferred. "Bengal people are happy that this court gave order Adhaar and other documents are allowed," the CM submits.
Feb 4, 2026 01:24 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata submits
Banerjee says, is allowed she can place some photographs before the court. "Suppose a daughter after getting married, if she changes title, it's also mismatched," she submits.
Feb 4, 2026 01:21 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: CJI interjects
CJI says that the state of West Bengal in its own right has also filed a petition. One of the best counsels in this court are there. Mr Sibal is there. On January 19, Mr Sibal explained the procedural difficulties of state and where state had genuine apprehension of exclusion of the citizens who are residents of WB.
Feb 4, 2026 01:20 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata Banerjee submits
Mamata: May I explain you because i belong to that state. I am very grateful because of your kindness and my humble regards to our Justices, lawyers. The problem is always our lawyers fight for the case from the beginning but when we are not getting justice, justice is crying behind the door, I quote Rabindranath Tagore, we are not getting justice anywhere. I have written 6 letters to CEC including all the details but no reply. I am a bonded labour. I am a very less important person. I am from a common family. I am fighting for my party
Feb 4, 2026 01:19 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata Banerjee submits
Banerjee says she has written so many letters to the election commission.
Feb 4, 2026 01:18 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata Banerjee submits
Banerjee says justice is crying behind doors.
Feb 4, 2026 01:17 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata Banerjee submits
Banerjee asks if she can explain the discrepancies. 'I am very grateful and my humble regards to honorable CJI and Justices Bagchi and Pancholi.
Feb 4, 2026 01:16 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Diwan submits
Diwan: The bulk of discrepancies are related to name. The 2003 voter list was in Bengali and in translation to English, it is deemed as logical discrepancy.
Feb 4, 2026 01:12 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Bench interjects
CJI: We were told list is not the only communication. There's also individual notice to persons
Senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi for ECI: All notices contain reasons and they were permitted to take authorised agents.
Diwan: We seek direction to ECI to withdraw all notices which pertain to name mismatch/descrepancy.
Feb 4, 2026 01:12 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Diwan submits
Diwan: A majority of the logical discrepancy cases, more than 50%, are cases of minor name mismatches and are spelling variations
Feb 4, 2026 01:10 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Abhishek Manu Singhvi appears through VC
Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi appears through VC.
Feb 4, 2026 01:06 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Shyam Diwan submits
Diwan: This is one of our grievances that panchayat residence certificate , the family registers, the domicile certificates, Adhaar cards, OBC certificates and land allotment certificates , none of these are being accepted despite the orders of the court.
He takes the bench through numbers. Says number of days left for final publication of electoral rolls, 11 days. Number of days left to complete hearings, four. Number of voters characterised as unmapped at present are 32 lakhs. Post draft roll remains at 1.36 crore (20% of electorate).
Feb 4, 2026 01:01 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Kapil Sibal appears through VC
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who is representing other petitioners in related matter appears through VC.
Feb 4, 2026 12:58 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata Banerjee appears before the bench
Senior advocate Shyam Diwan appearing for the CM starts making submissions. Diwan refers to Court's last order issuing directions to ECI (regarding logical discrepancy category).
Feb 4, 2026 12:51 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: Bench to take up matter soon
The bench says it will take up the matter after a one-two fresh matters.
Feb 4, 2026 12:48 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee in Supreme Court for SIR Hearing LIVE: CM has sought number of reliefs in the petition
Banerjee, in her plea has sought setting aside of the ECI's SIR notification dated June 24, 2025 and October 27, 2025.
Feb 4, 2026 12:34 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata's letter to election commissioner
In her letter to the CEC, she warned that continuing the exercise in its present form could lead to “mass disenfranchisement” and strike at the foundations of democracy.
Feb 4, 2026 12:20 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata's letter to election commission
In a letter dated January 3 to CEC Gyanesh Kumar, Banerjee accused the poll panel of overseeing an “unplanned, ill-prepared and ad hoc” process marred by “serious irregularities, procedural violations and administrative lapses”.
Feb 4, 2026 12:00 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata's plea
In her plea before the Supreme Court, Banerjee has sought directions to stop the deletion of names of the voters from the rolls.
Feb 4, 2026 11:51 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata's law background
TMC leaders had earlier said an application has been moved in the court for her to appear as a “party in person”. Mamata has an LLB degree from Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College under Calcutta University. Party leaders said she last practised as a lawyer in 2003.
Feb 4, 2026 11:39 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: Meeting with CEC
CM Banerjee, on February 2, led a delegation of TMC leaders along with 12 “SIR-affected” people to meet Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi. She alleged that 58 lakh voters were deleted from draft rolls during the SIR and questioned the conduct of the exercise three months before Assembly elections.
Feb 4, 2026 11:26 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: Pleas against SIR in WB
On January 19, the Supreme Court had passed a slew of directions to ECI for transparent verification of persons in logical discrepancy list on pleas by Trinamool Congress leaders alleging procedural irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal.
Feb 4, 2026 11:17 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: CM Mamata Banerjee's letters
Earlier, Banerjee had written letters to the Chief Election Commissioner over the SIR exercise, calling the exercise a “farce” and harassment of people.
Feb 4, 2026 10:52 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: Heavy security deployed
Heavy security deployed at Supreme Court, ahead of the hearing into SIR (Special Intensive Revision) and appearance of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee before the apex court.
In New Delhi on Wednesday Express photo By Amit Mehra.
Feb 4, 2026 10:43 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: Bench assembles
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi assemble.
Feb 4, 2026 10:39 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: CM's plea
Banerjee filed her petition on January 28, naming the ECI and the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer as respondents.
Feb 4, 2026 10:32 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: CM arrives in SC
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CM Banerjee in Supreme Court for hearing of her plea challenging SIR
Feb 4, 2026 10:29 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: CM arrives in SC
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CM Mamata arrives in Supreme Court
Feb 4, 2026 10:20 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: CM's plea
She has also requested that all valid identification documents issued by competent authorities be accepted as proof.
Feb 4, 2026 10:12 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: CM's plea
Additionally, she has sought directions restraining electoral authorities from calling voters for hearings in cases involving name mismatches or spelling variations classified as “logical discrepancies”, urging that such corrections be made suo motu on the basis of available records.
Feb 4, 2026 10:04 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: CM's plea
In her petition, Banerjee has sought the quashing of various directions and instructions issued by the ECI.
She has also prayed that the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections be conducted on the basis of the existing electoral rolls, and not on rolls revised pursuant to the SIR.
Feb 4, 2026 09:59 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: CM's law degree
Banerjee holds a law degree from Jogesh Chandra Choudhury College of Law, Calcutta, and last practised as an advocate in 2003.
Feb 4, 2026 09:54 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee v. EC West Bengal SIR Hearing LIVE: Mamata Banerjee is likely to appear
Nearly a month ago, Mamata had said that she would move the Supreme Court “as an ordinary citizen” to protect the democratic rights of citizens. At the Gangasagar rally in South 24 Parganas district, the chief minister had said that she would seek special permission to appear before the Supreme Court. “If necessary, I will go to the Supreme Court and plead for the people. I will speak for the people,” she said.
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