Contending that the Bihar SIR exercise as "accurate", the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the petitioner political parties and NGOs were making "false allegations" to discredit the process.

The poll body claimed that not a single appeal has been filed by any voter against name deletions since the publication of the final electoral roll.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, which noted the absence of political parties from the hearing due to rallies in the poll-bound state, said it expects the poll panel to look into typographical errors and other mistakes in the final list of Bihar electoral roll prepared after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise as a responsible authority and come out with remedial measures.

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