SC asks Election Commission to furnish details of excluded voters under Bihar SIR by Oct 9

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission of India to provide details of 3.66 lakh voters excluded from the final electoral roll prepared after Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.

The poll panel informed the top court that most of the names added in the final list after the publication of the draft list on August 30 were of new voters and that no complaint or appeal has been filed till now by any excluded voter.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi passed the directions after some petitioners, including political leaders from opposition parties like RJD, Congress and CPI (M), said that the Election Commission (EC) has not given any notice or reasons to the deleted voters for their exclusion from the final electoral list.