SC to intervene in case of mass exclusion in SIR

Terming the Election Commission a constitutional authority deemed to act in accordance with law, the Supreme Court Tuesday said it will step in immediately if there is “mass exclusion” in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar.

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi fixed a timeline for considering a batch of pleas challenging the Election Commission’s SIR exercise in Bihar and said hearing on the issue will be held on August 12 and 13. Stressing the point, it asked the petitioners to bring in “15 people whom they say are dead and are alive.”