India, July 28 -- The Supreme Court on Monday refused to put an interim stay on the publishing of draft electoral rolls in Bihar, with Assembly elections in the state slated to be held soon.

While passing the order, the SC said it would once for all decide the pleas against the Election Commission of India's (ECI) special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls.

The bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said they would on July 29 fix the schedule for conducting a final hearing on the matter.

Appearing for NGO Association for Democratic Reforms, Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan submitted before court that the electoral rolls should not be finalised in the interim, and asked for a stay on publishing them on Augus...