最高法院将于周四审理对该国有争议的选民名单修订的挑战，反对党寻求阻止此项工作，并在连日抗议和大规模拘留之后审查最高选举官员的行为。
Supreme Court is set to hear a challenge Thursday to the country’s contentious voter-roll revision, as opposition parties seek to halt the exercise and scrutinize the conduct of the top election official following days of protests and mass detentions.
法院还将审理关于新德里一周抗议期间所谓的警察暴行、大规模拘留和广泛的安全限制的单独案件。这些请愿书还涉及律师和记者被拘留、地铁站和列车中断以及互联网关闭，因为当局在周末对首都部分地区实施了封锁。法院已要求一名高级德里警察官员出庭，回应有关女记者在报道示威活动时遭到骚扰的指控。
It will also consider separate cases over alleged police brutality, mass detentions and sweeping security restrictions during a week of protests in New Delhi. The petitions also concern the detention of lawyers and journalists, metro station and train disruptions and internet shutdown as authorities locked down parts of the capital over the weekend. The court has asked a senior Delhi Police officer to appear and respond to allegations that women journalists were harassed while covering the demonstrations.
周四的听证会原定于周二举行，但因一名法官生病而推迟，正值示威者继续要求首席选举委员会委员Gyanesh Kumar辞职之际。
Thursday’s hearing, which was postponed from Tuesday after a judge fell ill, comes as demonstrators continue to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
蟑螂人民党创始人Abhijeet Dipke呼吁在10月16日于德里举行新的示威活动，此前该青年领导运动的两位领导人Saurav Das和Ashutosh Ranka因周三在Jantar Mantar（一个最近被移出指定抗议场地名单的地点）闯入而被捕并被送往监狱五天。这两人被看到挥舞印度三色旗并翻越路障进入该地点。
Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke has called for fresh demonstrations in Delhi on Oct. 16, after two of the youth-led movement’s leaders, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, were arrested and sent to jail for five days Wednesday for trespassing at Jantar Mantar, a site recently removed from the list of designated protest venues. The two were seen waving the Indian tricolour and climbing over barricades to enter the site.
“我们将挥舞旗帜，以表明这样做不是犯罪。那些无法来到德里的人应在自己的城市组织游行，”Dipke在一篇帖子中说。这场动荡源于印度快报于九月下旬的一项调查，该调查称Kumar无视其他两名选举委员提出的异议，推进了选民名单的特别强化修订。该工作去年启动，旨在核实选民资格，已导致超过1.3亿个名字被从草拟名单中剔除，引发反对党对合格选民被剥夺选举权的担忧。
“We will wave the flag to show that doing so is not a crime. Those who cannot come to Delhi should organize marches in their own cities,” Dipke said in a post on The unrest has been sparked by a late-September investigation by the Indian Express alleging that Kumar disregarded objections raised by the other two election commissioners over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. The exercise, launched last year to verify voter eligibility, has resulted in more than 130 million names being excluded from draft lists, raising concerns among opposition parties that eligible voters are being disenfranchised.
选举委员会驳回了不当行为的指控，称此次修订旨在删除重复、已故和不符合资格的选民。反对党要求对删除行为进行独立调查，而总理纳伦德拉·莫迪领导的印度人民党则指责反对党试图在选举失利后破坏民主制度。
The Election Commission has rejected allegations of wrongdoing, saying the revision is intended to remove duplicate, deceased and ineligible voters. Opposition parties have called for an independent investigation into the deletions, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party has accused them of attempting to undermine democratic institutions following electoral defeats.
此争议发生在明年关键州议会选举之前，其中包括印度人口最多的北方邦，这提升了莫迪政府的政治风险，因为抗议者仍在要求选举当局承担更大责任。
The dispute comes ahead of key state elections next year, including in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, raising the political stakes for Modi’s government as protesters continue to demand greater accountability from election authorities.
莫迪尚未就最新抗议活动发表公开评论。印度人民党的高层领导人捍卫了选民名单修订，并指责反对党试图破坏民主制度。
Modi hasn’t publicly commented on the latest protests. Top leaders from his Bharatiya Janata Party have defended the voter-roll revision and accused opposition parties of attempting to undermine democratic institutions.