In the challenge to the SIR Process, the petitioners today told the Supreme Court that during the Bihar SIR, the ECI issued 'cyclostyled' notices to 26 lakh people on proving their eligibility without giving them any reasons for the same.

A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a batch of pleas assailing the SIR initiated across several states.

Today, Advocate Prashant Bhushan , for the Association for Democratic Reforms, continued with his previous arguments on ECI not being transparent in its conduct.

He stressed that the ECI's refusal to publish machine-readable data on the number of voters added or deleted from the final list aggravated the issue of transparency. He submitted that during the Bihar SIR, 3.5 lakh names were

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