India, Sept. 9 -- The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to include Aadhaar as a 12th prescribed document for establishing the identity of a voter in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of electoral roll in poll-bound Bihar.
At the moment for Bihar SIR, there are 11 prescribed documents which electors have to submit with their enumeration forms. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, however, clarified Aadhaar will not be a proof of citizenship and the commission can ascertain the genuineness of Aadhaar card number submitted by an elector for inclusion in the electoral roll.
Observing nobody wants the ECI to include illegal immigrants in the electoral roll, the bench said it should...