New Delhi, July 27: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a batch of pleas challenging the Election Commission’s decision to undertake a special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi is likely to take up the matter in which the EC has justified its ongoing SIR of electoral rolls in Bihar, saying it adds to the purity of the election by “weeding out ineligible persons” from the electoral rolls.
The poll panel, while justifying its June 24 decision directing the SIR, has said all major political parties were “involved” in the exercise and deployed more than 1.5 lakh booth-level agents to reach out to eligible voters, but are opposing it in the apex court.
Meanwhile, in a rejoinder affidavit, the NGO ‘Association for Democratic Reforms’, the lead petition in the case, has claimed that the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) are vested with broad and unchecked discretion that could result in disenfranchisement of a significant segment of Bihar’s population. (PTI)
SC to hear pleas challenging EC’s decision to revise Bihar electoral rolls today
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