Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal has expressed a loss of faith in the Supreme Court, saying he was tired of repeatedly approaching the Court for the protection of the rights of citizens.

He was addressing a press conference on Saturday in response to the police curbs on protests held in Delhi yesterday against the Chief Election Commissioner and the SIR process.

“I am tired of keeping on going to the Supreme Court. I am speaking for myself. I don't think there is any use of going there. I don't have much hope in the Supreme Court of India,” Sibal said.

Referring to the proceedings concerning electoral roll revisions, Sibal said that the Supreme Court had been repeatedly apprised of alleged wrongful deletions and inclusions of voters' names, but no relief was granted. Now, with the Bengal Appellate Tribunals restoring voters' names in 93% of decided appeals so far, it is clear that the majority of names were wrongfully deleted from the rolls, Sibal said. Despite that, the Court did not intervene.

"We go to the Court, but I don't know if we will get any relief. The people of the country feel that this Government should go. If anybody can save the Constitution in these times, it is the Supreme Court of India. But I am tired. I am tired of keeping on going to the Supreme Court. I am speaking for myself. I don't think there is any use of going there. I don't have much hope in the Supreme Court of India. Whatever has to happen, will happen," Sibal said.

When asked if he was dissatisfied with the Chief Justice of India, Sibal said that he was neither satisfied nor dissatisfied. "We are lawyers, there is no question of being satisfied or dissatisfied. We have to fight the people's cases. If there is injustice, we have to file a petition, whether the Court hears or not," Sibal said.

He said that in the "Vote-Chori" issue, the Supreme Court was repeatedly informed of concerns regarding the Special Intensive Revision process.

"We told the Supreme Court many times that the voters' names are being wrongly deleted and wrongly included; we argued for months. The evidence is before the public. And the appellate tribunals now say 93% of the voters were wrongly removed. So the Supreme Court must have known. But no relief was given. So I am speaking for myself, I don't have [faith]"