In the pleas challenging the Election Commission of India's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, the Supreme Court on Tuesday (October 7) orally said that there was some confusion as to whether the voters added in the final electoral list were from the list of voters who were previously deleted from the draft list or totally new names.

A bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was responding to the petitioners' demand that the Election Commission of India must publish the list of names of 3.66 lakh voters who were additionally deleted from the final list, and the names of the 21 lakh voters who were included in it.

Orally asking the ECI to get the necessary information, the Court adjourned the hearing till next Thursday (October 9).

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