India, May 26 -- The votes cast in the recently concluded Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections will be recounted, a court-elected committee informed the Supreme Court on Monday.

The development comes amid allegations of irregularities in the polls conducted on May 21 this year.

Senior advocate Vijay Hansaria, a member of the court-appointed election committee, told a bench of justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta that such recounting will be done for the post of the SCBA President as well as other Executive Committee (EC) positions.

Hansaria told the bench that the committee had indeed found discrepancies in the vote count, as alleged. He said the number of votes declared for the President's post was 2,651, which exceeded th...