The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it will on August 12 and 13 hear a batch of pleas challenging the Election Commission of India’s move to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
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SC overviews Bihar SIR as judicial authority
On petitioners apprehension that persons omitted from Draft List after its publication on August 1, Supreme Court said, “We are overviewing the thing as a judicial authority. If there is mass exclusion, we will immediately step in.”
On Monday, the Supreme Court said that there should be "en masse inclusion" instead of "en masse exclusion” in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters’ list in poll-bound Bihar. The top court also asked the Election Commission to continue accepting Aadhaar and voter ID documents.
Underscoring the "presumption of genuineness" of the two documents, the top court also refused to stay the publication of the draft electoral roll in Bihar.
Draft roll scheduled to be published on August 1
The draft roll is scheduled to be published on August 1 and the final roll on September 30 amid opposition claims that the ongoing exercise will deprive crores of eligible citizens from their right to vote.
The remarks by the apex court came on a day when several MPs of the INDIA bloc parties, including Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi, protested in the Parliament House complex the EC’s voter roll revision and demanded its rollback.
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