New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that the idea of verifying citizenship may not be alien to the notification for holding SIR as the term migration - one of the grounds cited by the ECI for revising rolls - may also include cross-border migration. Hearing arguments in an ongoing proceeding where the SIR in Bihar has been challenged in a bunch of petitions accusing the ECI of disenfranchising citizens on mere suspicion of citizenship, a bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and justice Joymalya Bagchi said, "Migration can be trans-country. It may not be within the country alone." The court was responding to senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, appearing for one of the petitioners, who said that if the ECI was required to determine citizenship, it should have stated so clearly in its June 24 order declaring SIR for Bihar. htc...