The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear tomorrow a batch of pleas challenging the Election Commission’s 24th June decision to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi will consider responses from parties such as the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), and other petitioners. The Election Commission has submitted that 99.5 percent of the 72.4 million electors in the draft electoral roll had submitted their eligibility documents during the SIR process.
The court will resume hearings on the matter, which includes petitions from NGOs, activists and political parties. The court had earlier directed the commission to allow excluded voters to submit claims online, in addition to making physical submissions as part of the SIR exercise.
