India, Sept. 16 -- The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday said it was presuming that the Election Commission of India (ECI), being a constitutional authority, was following the law during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar and warned that the entire exercise would be set aside in case any illegality is found at any stage.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, which fixed October 7 for hearing final arguments on the validity of Bihar SIR, refused to offer any "piecemeal opinion" on the exercise and said "our judgement in Bihar SIR will be applicable for pan-India SIR".
The SC clarified it can't stop the poll panel from conducting a similar exercise for the revision of electoral rolls across the country...