Several pleas, including by leaders like RJD MP Manoj Jha and TMC MP Mahua Moitra, have been filed in the top court challenging the Election Commission’s order directing for special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on July 10 a batch of petitions challenging the decision of the Election Commission to undertake special intensive revision of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
Several pleas, including by leaders like RJD MP Manoj Jha and TMC MP Mahua Moitra, have been filed in the top court challenging the Election Commission’s order directing for special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar.
A partial working day (PWD) bench comprising Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi took note of the submissions of a battery of senior lawyers led by Kapil Sibal on behalf of several petitioners and agreed to hear the pleas on Thursday.
Sibal, who appeared for RJD MP Manoj Jha, urged the bench to issue notices to the poll panel on the petitions, saying it is an impossible task to be done within the timeline (as elections are likely to be held in November).
Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for another petitioner, submitted that there are around eight crore voters in the state of which around four crore voters will have to submit their documents under the exercise.
“The timeline is so strict, and if by July 25 you don’t submit the documents, you will be out,” Singhvi added.
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