The Supreme Court on Thursday (October 9, 2025) said the litigious road traversed in the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise must have made the Election Commission of India (ECI) “wiser”, even as it activated paralegal volunteers and legal aid lawyers in Bihar to help 3.66 lakh people excluded from the final voter list file appeals without delay.

“You have decided to carry out SIR on a pan-India basis. So, this experience [with Bihar] would have made you wiser now… The next time you introduce a SIR module, owing to what you experienced now, you would also bring some improvement,” Justice Surya Kant, heading a Bench comprising Justice Joymalya Bagchi, addressed the ECI orally.

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Senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, for the ECI, reacted

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