Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday said if every individual began submitting voter enrolment applications immediately upon turning 18, it would overwhelm the authorities with verification work and “open the floodgates”.

A person who has turned 18 would be included whenever there is a revision of the electoral roll, the HC said and directed the Electoral Registration Officer to decide within six weeks the application of an 18-year-old woman seeking to be enrolled as a voter in Mumbai.

Rupika Singh, who turned 18 in April this year, had moved HC claiming that her application seeking to be enrolled as a voter was not accepted as the cut-off date in the state was October 1, 2024. The Maharashtra assembly elections were held in November 2024.

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