Bihar SIR voter-friendly: SC

Observing that electoral rolls cannot remain “static” and there is bound to be a revision, the Supreme Court Wednesday said the expanded list of acceptable documents of identity from seven to 11 for Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters’ list was in fact “voter-friendly and not exclusionary.”

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As the row over the SIR which has been challenged in the top court escalated, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said the Election Commission (EC) had the residual power to conduct such an exercise as it deemed fit. The bench also disagreed with a submission by a petitioner that the SIR of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar had no basis in law and ought to be quashed.