# SC Justice Ujjwal Bhuiyan calls voter disenfranchisement arbitrary 2026-10-04T17:37:28+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Supreme Court Justice Ujjwal Bhuiyan said on Sunday, 4 October that any process which deprives millions of Indian citizens of their voting right is arbitrary and unconstitutional. Speaking at the NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, he stated that such a process violates Articles 326 and 14 of the Constitution. He stressed that no authority or court can justify this, and that the Constitution is above everyone. Justice Bhuiyan linked the right to vote to India's freedom struggle, calling it a central part of the basic structure doctrine. The comments come amid protests by opposition parties and student groups in multiple cities, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists. A petition against Kumar is scheduled for hearing in the Supreme Court on Monday, 5 October. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Both tv9hindi.com and aajtak.in provide neutral, verbatim coverage of Justice Bhuiyan's speech, with no pro-government or critical framing of the Election Commission. The two outlets differ only in that tv9hindi.com devotes substantial space to detailing the opposition protests in Delhi and Mumbai, including specific party names and the detention of activists, while aajtak.in focuses entirely on the judicial remarks. The uniform reporting of the speech itself reinforces the judge's unambiguous language on voting rights as constitutional, not merely statutory. The key development to follow is the Supreme Court hearing on the petition against the CEC on Monday, 5 October. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - tv9hindi.com (neutral report) Straight report of Justice Bhuiyan's speech with detailed protest coverage - aajtak.in (neutral report) Direct report of the judge's remarks, no added slant This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: Election Commission, Gyanesh Kumar, NALSAR, Supreme Court, Ujjwal Bhuiyan Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/sc-justice-ujjwal-bhuiyan-calls-voter-disenfranchisement-arbitrary/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/sc-justice-ujjwal-bhuiyan-calls-voter-disenfranchisement-arbitrary/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/