Publish list of 6.5 mn deleted voter names: SC to EC

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Election Commission to publish by August 19 details of the 6.5 million voters excluded from the draft electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar to enhance "transparency" in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters' list and allow Aadhaar as an acceptable document for identity proof.

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Observing that the EC should put at rest the "narrative being built" against it, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi also ordered that the details should include reasons for their non-inclusion during the ongoing SIR exercise.