The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that the final electoral roll prepared during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar had been notified, and that most of the 21 lakh names added were those of new voters, with only a small portion belonging to previously registered electors.

A Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, while hearing a batch of petitions challenging the SIR, noted that there appeared to be some “confusion” over whether the voters newly added to the rolls were from among 65 lakh names earlier deleted from the draft list or were entirely new names.

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Appearing for the petitioner-organisation Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), Advocate Prashant Bhushan urged the Court to direct the E

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