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XNew Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought separate responses from the Election Commission (EC) on pleas filed by the DMK, CPI(M), the West Bengal unit of the Congress and Trinamool Congress leaders, challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal respectively. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi asked the poll panel to respond to the fresh petitions in two weeks. The apex court also asked the Madras and Calcutta high courts to keep in abeyance any proceedings on petitions challenging the SIR of the electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. It also allowed the listing of an intervention application filed by the AIADMK supporting the exercise in Tamil Nadu. On October 27, the EC announced the conduct of the second pha

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