Chennai, Oct. 25 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday informed the Madras high court that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Tamil Nadu's electoral rolls would commence in a week as part of a nationwide exercise.

ECI standing counsel Niranjan Rajagopalan made the submission before the bench of chief justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and justice G Arul Murugan during the hearing of a petition filed by former AIADMK MLA B Sathyanarayanan, who sought directions to the ECI to conduct a complete and transparent re-verification of electoral rolls in 229 booths of the T Nagar constituency in Chennai.

States like Tamil Nadu that are set to go to polls early next year are expected to be covered in the first phase of the exer...