KOCHI: In the backdrop of the local body elections, the High Court asked the state government, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to raise the demand to postpone the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the Supreme Court? Justice VG Arun said that any intervention at this stage would affect the SIR and that the process should also be completed in a time-bound manner. An order will be issued on the petition today.

The government's petition pointed out that deploying officials for both missions simultaneously would cause administrative gridlock. However, the Central Election Commission and the State Election Commission opposed it.

Advocate General K Gopalakrishna Kurup argued that although the electoral roll revision is being carried out in 12 states, Kerala faces a unique situation of local b

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