The Supreme Court on Thursday said it expects the Election Commission to look into typographical errors and other mistakes in the final Bihar electoral roll prepared after the Special Intensive Revision exercise as a responsible authority and come out with remedial measures.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said it will hear on November 4 the legal issues pertaining to the Bihar SIR exercise.
The poll panel said that since its publication of the final electoral roll on September 30, not a single appeal has been filed by any voter against name deletion.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO ‘Association of Democratic Reforms, said details of a voter claiming his name was not added in the final list, which was alleged by the EC as fake on the October 7 hearing in the matter, were true.
He said that EC should disclose how many voters were deleted and for what revision to ensure transparency in the exercise.
The bench noted that the electoral roll will be​The Supreme Court on Thursday said it expects the Election Commission to look into typographical errors and other mistakes in the final Bihar electoral roll prepared after the Special Intensive Revision exercise as a responsible authority and come out with remedial measures.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said it will hear on November 4 the legal issues pertaining to the Bihar SIR exercise.
The poll panel said that since its publication of the final electoral roll on September 30, not a single appeal has been filed by any voter against name deletion.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO ‘Association of Democratic Reforms, said details of a voter claiming his name was not added in the final list, which was alleged by the EC as fake on the October 7 hearing in the matter, were true.
He said that EC should disclose how many voters were deleted and for what revision to ensure transparency in the exercise.
The bench noted that the electoral roll will be ​Latest News [ SOBAN NEWS: International and National ]
