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The Supreme Court today said it cannot order legislature to make or amend a law within a particular time frame and granted eight weeks time to the Centre to effect changes in statutes for extending voting rights to NRIs through postal ballots. However, the Election Commission, which found it feasible to give voting rights to NRIs, did not favour extending the same benefit to migrants in the country.
“A person can be enrolled only at the place where he is ordinarily resident, the question of any person migrating to a different place, enrolling himself in the electoral roll of his native place does not arise,” it said in an affidavit.
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