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Prisoner’s Cannot Vote
August 7 , 2019
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- The Election Commission of India (ECI) has informed the Delhi High Court that “prisoners” do not have voting rights under the Representation of People (RP) Act.
- The poll panel said the right to vote is a statutory right created under Section 62 of the RP Act and the law is settled that the “right to vote being a statutory right is subject to the restrictions prescribed in the RP Act”.
- Further ECI quoted the Supreme Court judgement in the Anukul Chandra Pradhan v Union of India (1997) case which denied voting rights to prisoners.
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