Suprabuddha Sen was a retired engineer from Santiniketan, Rabindranath Tagore’s celebrated university town in West Bengal. Eighty-eight years old, he is the maternal grandson of Nandalal Bose, the artist whose work helped give India’s Constitution its visual identity. A lifelong voter, he found that when the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) reached West Bengal, his name and his wife Deepa’s name were placed under adjudication. Officials held a hearing at his residence, where he submitted the required documents; nevertheless, they removed both their names from the electoral rolls.
Sen approached the Supreme Court, where a senior advocate argued his case before a bench led by the Chief Justice. Directed to an appellate tribunal, he secured an order restoring his name shortly before polling began on 23 April. Yet at the polling station, officials turned the couple away; only after the matter was escalated to the district magistrate and Election Commission officials were they permitted to vote.
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