New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday observed that the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) row as "largely a trust deficit issue" as the Election Commission of India (ECI) claimed roughly 6.5 crore people of the total 7.9 crore voting population didn't have to file any documents for them or their parents featured in the 2003 electoral roll.
The court added including or excluding citizens and non-citizens from electoral rolls was within ECI's remit.
A bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, which commenced the hearing on a batch of petitions, including some filed by leaders of Opposition parties including the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress, posed searching questions to the petitioners and...