New Delhi, July 29 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday posted for hearing a batch of pleas challenging the Election Commission of India's move to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar. The pleas are listed for August 12 and 13.

On petitioners' apprehension that 65 lakh voters are going to be excluded from the draft list to be published by the Election Commission of India in the SIR process on August 1, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said that if there is any mass exclusion of voters, then the court will step in.

"We are overviewing the thing as a judicial authority. If there is mass exclusion, we will immediately step in," said the bench.

Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for...