SIR in Bihar: EC terms the exercise ‘accurate’

New Delhi: The Election Commission on Thursday termed the Bihar SIR “accurate” and told the Supreme Court that the petitioner political parties and NGOs are merely content with making “false allegations” to discredit the exercise.

The poll body also told the apex court that not a single appeal has been filed by any voter against name deletion since the publication of the final electoral roll.

It denied the allegation of the petitioners that there was a “disproportionate exclusion of Muslims” from the final electoral roll of the state prepared after the months-long Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.

“This communal approach is to be deprecated,” the poll panel said.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, which noted the absence of political parties from the hear