New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- The Supreme Court on Monday fixed October 7 for hearing final arguments on the validity of the Special Intensive Exercise of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.

The apex court said it can't give a piecemeal opinion on Bihar SIR and that the final verdict will apply to pan-India SIR.

"If we find any illegality in methodology adopted by ECI at any stage of Bihar SIR, entire exercise will be set aside," theSupreme Court said.

We presume ECI, a constitutional authority, follows the law and mandatory rules in the Bihar SIR exercise," it added.

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