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Supreme Court Directive To Election Commission , Provide Details Of 3.66 Lakh Voters Deleted From Final Electoral Rolls
The poll panel informed the apex court that most of the names added in the final list after the publication of the draft list on August 30 were of new voters and that no complaint or appeal has been filed till now by any excluded voter.
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The Supreme Court has asked the Election Commission to provide details of 3.66 lakh voters excluded from the final electoral roll prepared after Bihar’s special intensive revision (SIR) exercise.
As per media reports, The poll panel informed the apex court that most of the names added in the final list after the publication of the draft list on August 30 were of new voters and that no complaint or appeal has been filed till now by any excluded voter.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi passed the directions after some petitioners, including political leaders from opposition parties like Rashtriya Janata Dal, Congress and Communist Party of India-Marxist), said that the Election Commission (EC) has not given any notice or reasons to the deleted voters for their exclusion from the final electoral list.
The bench, which was hearing a batch of pleas challenging the June 24 decision of the Election Commission to conduct the SIR in poll-bound Bihar, said the EC will submit whatever information it gets on excluded voters by Thursday (October 9), when it will hold the next hearing on these pleas.