The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday accused the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) of filing false affidavits with regard to the special intensive revision (SIR) to mislead the Supreme Court.

On behalf of the EC, senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi told a Bench led by Justice Surya Kant that the petitioner, ADR, had given fake details of a person, who claimed that his name had been excluded from the final list.

The name of the person referred to in the ADR's affidavit did not figure in the draft roll and that the details given were of some woman, Dwivedi told the Bench, which also included Justice Joymalya Bagchi.

Dwivedi said the ADR and activist Yogendra Yadav kept on filing their affidavits till late afternoon and the EC needed to file its responses.

ADR counsel Prashant Bhush

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