# Supreme Court asks Calcutta HC to consider security for former judge 2026-08-07T18:08:49+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice to examine a plea for enhanced security for former High Court judge Justice Anindita Roy Saraswati, who currently heads an Appellate Tribunal for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal. The petition, filed by her son Advocate Ananya Kanti Roy Saraswati, alleges that after his mother's car was involved in a planned accident on April 22 while travelling to the tribunal, a handwritten threat letter was delivered to her Rajarhat residence on April 30 warning that she and her family would be killed if Muslim names were not added to voter lists. A second identical threat letter was later delivered to the advocate's Kolkata home, and CCTV wiring at the judge's residence was tampered with. The petitioner claims repeated complaints to the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate yielded no effective protection. The SIR tribunals were set up by the Supreme Court after it noted a 'trust deficit' between the Election Commission and the West Bengal government, to adjudicate disputed inclusions and deletions from electoral rolls ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana declined to examine the merits of the case, instead requesting the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice to 'look into the matter and take necessary steps'. ## Coverage - livelaw.in - timesofindia.indiatimes.com Tags: Calcutta High Court, judge security, SIR exercise, Supreme Court, voter list revision, West Bengal Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/supreme-court-calcutta-hc-to-examine-sir-judges-security-plea/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/supreme-court-calcutta-hc-to-examine-sir-judges-security-plea/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.