The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on July 10 a batch of petitions challenging the decision of the Election Commission (EC) to undertake special intensive revision of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
As reported by PTI, Several fresh pleas including a joint petition by opposition parties leaders of the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar, the Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray, the Samajwadi Party, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist were filed in the apex court against the poll panel’s decision to conduct the special intensive revision (SIR) before Bihar went to polls.
A bench comprising Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi considered the submissions of lawyers led by senior counsel Kapil Sibal, who was representing several petitioners, and agreed to hear the pleas on July 10.
Sibal, who is representing Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Manoj Jha, urged the bench to issue notices to the poll panel on the petitions, calling it an ‘impossible task’ within the timeline as elections were to happen in the state in November.
