The Supreme Court has reiterated that the Election Commission of India (ECI) is not the constitutional authority to determine a person’s citizenship. The Court observed that while the ECI has the power to revise electoral rolls and remove names where required under the law, deletion from the voter list does not automatically result in the loss of Indian citizenship. �The New Indian Express +1The observation came while hearing a plea concerning the alleged denial of welfare benefits to individuals whose names were removed during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The Court clarified that citizenship can only be determined under the provisions of the Citizenship Act by the competent authority, not by the Election