New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday refuted before the Supreme Court allegations that a large number of names were deleted from the final voter list following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.

Senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, representing the ECI, countered that the affidavits relied upon by Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing on behalf of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), were inaccurate.

Dwivedi told a Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, that several individuals claimed to have been “deleted” were never part of the draft list because they had not submitted their enumeration forms.

The poll body stated that a “false” affidavit had been filed, which amounts to perjury, and clarified that t

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