New Delhi, Dec 11 (PTI) The Election Commission cannot assume the role of a “suspicious neighbour" or a “policeman" treating voters with doubt, the Supreme Court was told on Thursday during the final hearings on a batch of pleas challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in various states.

A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi heard detailed submissions from senior advocate Raju Ramachandran representing petitioners opposed to the SIR process being undertaken in several states.

Ramachandran assailed the conceptual foundation of the SIR and urged that the poll panel’s constitutional mandate is to act as a facilitator and enabler of voting rights.

“The negative way of viewing one’s own role is that of a disabler or that of a suspicious po

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