EC terms Bihar SIR 'accurate'

The Election Commission Thursday termed the Bihar SIR “accurate” and told the Supreme Court that the petitioner political parties and NGOs are merely content with making “false allegations” to discredit the exercise.

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

The poll body also told the apex court that not a single appeal has been filed by any voter against name deletion since the publication of the final electoral roll.

It denied the allegation of the petitioners that there was a “disproportionate exclusion of Muslims” from the final electoral roll of the state prepared after the months-long Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. “This communal approach is to be deprecated,” the poll panel said.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, which noted the absence of political parties from the hearing due to rallies in the poll-bound state, said it expects the poll panel, as a responsible authority, to look into typographical errors and other mistakes in the final list of Bihar electoral roll prepared after the SIR exercise and come out with remedial measures.