India, July 10 -- A bunch of petitions calling the Election Commission's revision of electoral rolls in Bihar "arbitrary" and "unconstitutional" are to come up in the Supreme Court on Thursday.

These include pleas filed by the transparency advocacy group Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), activist Yogendra Yadav, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, among others.

The assembly elections in Bihar are set to be held in October-November.

Revisions in general have been carried out before across India.

However, Mahua Moitra and others contend that this SIR, as notified, is being done for the "very first time in the country", where all electors are being asked to prove their eligibility again.

It was on June 24 that the Election Commi...