India, Dec. 3 -- The Election Commission's reasons like 'rapid urbanisation' and 'frequent migration' for undertaking special intensive revision of electoral rolls in various states are "untenable," and its power to revise rolls of any constituency does not empower it to do it pan-India, the Supreme Court was told on Tuesday.

These strong arguments were advanced by senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for one of the petitioners, before a bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, which continued for the third consecutive day its hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the legality of the EC's ongoing intensive revision of electoral rolls in several states.

"If the reasons are common, they must have...