The draft electoral roll for Delhi’s SIR (Special Identification Record) system includes the name of late economist Bibek Debroy, who died in November 2024. Both outlets report that he appears as a 70-year-old elector in polling part 73 of the Delhi Cantonment Assembly constituency, based on a roll published on August 31.
According to Mint, the entry persists despite the death and is not mapped to any matching record in earlier rolls. Because of this lack of clear continuity, the Election Commission flags the record for verification, citing discrepancies detected in the roll. The notice process is meant to confirm whether the listing is a data error or requires correction.
The Hindu frames the finding as a “notice” issue discovered in the context of the draft roll publication, noting Debroy’s age in the entry and his death in 2024. Both reports focus on the administrative mismatch between the electoral listing and available biographical status, rather than any political or legal claim about the inclusion itself.
