New Delhi, July 11 -- Calling it a "constitutional mandate", the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday refused to stop the Election Commission of India (ECI) from proceeding with the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
Questioning the timing of the exercise, a two-judge bench of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, however, asked the poll body to consider Aadhaar, voter ID and ration cards for the purpose of updating the rolls, but left it to the discretion of the ECI whether to accept or reject them.
The court said this after Senior Advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, appearing for the ECI, submitted that the list of 11 documents to be considered for the revision exercise is not exhaustive. Noting th...
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