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Plea to extend SIR by a week to be heard on Sept 8, says SC
The New Indian Express Bengaluru
|August 30, 2025
The Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear on September 8 the Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) plea seeking one more week for filing claims and objections on voter registration as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) in Bihar.
Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the RJD, mentioned the matter before a three-judge bench of justices Surya Kant, Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi, seeking a week's extension to the September 1 deadline.
This story is from the August 30, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Bengaluru.
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