nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/b9270d9446bcb24b DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260603s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|ger|| 10.59704/b9270d9446bcb24b doi ger 342 23 Jain, Anmol Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-4596-3911 Power Without Oversight - India’s SIR Judgment and the Unfinished Business of Institutional Design Jain, Anmol Verfassungsblog 2026-06-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Last week, the Indian Supreme Court delivered an important verdict on the power of the Election Commission of India (ECI) under the Indian Constitution – specifically, whether, and in what manner, it can conduct the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise for the revision of electoral voter rolls. Unlike minor revisions, SIR is a large-scale revision exercise to clean the electoral rolls by removing duplicate entries and names of those who have either migrated or died. The legal backdrop in which the judgment was delivered offers important insights for comparative constitutional law scholars, particularly those studying fourth branch institutions, electoral management bodies, and constitutional design. CC BY-SA 4.0 Election Commission Fourth Branch Independent Institutions Indian Supreme Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/sir-judgment-supreme-court-india-election-commission/ raw object