Kolkata, February 23 Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul held an internal coordination meeting with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal and senior administrative and police officials on Monday regarding the work assigned to judicial officers, officials said.
The Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, and DGP were among those present at the meeting.
Speaking to reporters after the nearly hour-long meeting, CEO Manoj Agarwal described it as an "internal meeting."
He said that training of judicial officers on the online portal for the electoral roll verification process in the state was completed on Monday morning, and the exercise has already commenced in several places.
"There were some initial problems regarding OTPs, but these have been resolved," Agarwal said.
On February 20, the Supreme Court issued an "extraordinary" direction to deploy serving and former district judges to assist the poll panel in the controversial SIR process in the state.
The apex court ordered the deputation of judicial officers for the adjudication of claims and objections of persons placed on the logical discrepancy lists and facing removal of their names from the electoral rolls.
Logical discrepancies in the progeny linking with the 2002 voter list include mismatches in parents' names and cases where the age difference between a voter and their parent is less than 15 years or more than 50 years.
The top court had asked Chief Justice Sujoy Paul to spare some judicial officers and identify former judges to assist in the SIR exercise, taking serious note of the state government not allocating enough Grade ‘A’ officers for the revision work.