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Judges deciding voters' appeals asked to prove their own identity by EC in Bengal

short by Bhuvnesh Ojha / on Tuesday, 3 November, 2026
The Election Commission has asked judges of West Bengal's SIR appellate tribunals to create digital signature certificates using their PAN and government-issued identity cards, according to official records accessed by The Indian Express. This comes more than a month after the judges refused to log in to the Election Commission's portal over an Aadhaar authentication feature.