Chief Justice Surya Kant contradicted the Election Commission's claim that the court upheld a new declaration attached to Form 6, while hearing a plea against the Chief Election Commissioner.

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• On 5 October 2026, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said the Supreme Court has not approved any modified version of Form 6.
• Form 6 is the form first-time voters use to seek inclusion in the electoral rolls during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision.
• The remark came while hearing Advocate Shailendra Mani Tripathi's writ petition seeking to quash 14 decisions the Chief Election Commissioner reportedly made unilaterally.
• The bench comprised the Chief Justice, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana.
• In a late-September press note, the Election Commission had claimed the Supreme Court upheld the declaration attached to Form 6 for the revision.
• The Chief Justice said the court wants to see, once the record is produced, who modified the form.
• LiveLaw noted the court had no occasion to examine the new declaration in the Bihar SIR judgment, as it was introduced afterwards.
• The earlier version of Form 6 did not carry the additional declaration clause.
• The Commission has said the declaration is an extra attachment rather than a change to the form, and that forms under the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960 apply outside the revision.
• The Commission later reverted Form 6 to its original format and limited the extra declaration to States undergoing the revision.
• The row followed an Indian Express report that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had objected to several decisions, which the Commission rejected as untrue.