New Delhi: Now that the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has concluded, the Supreme Court has asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to clarify whether Bihar’s final voters’ list includes entirely new voters—absent from the draft rolls—or reinstates names that were earlier removed but later restored after voters provided identification.

On Tuesday, a bench of justices Suryakant and Joymalya Bagchi asked the ECI to clear the ‘confusion’ over the identity of the voters on the final electoral rolls. Petitioners against the Bihar SIR earlier raised concerns, demanding a list of the names of 3.66 lakh additional voters removed, as well as the 21 lakh new voters added, to make the final voters’ list.

“Final list appears to be an appreciation of numbers…There is confusion in the ge

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