The Supreme Court Tuesday said there is “confusion” whether the new names added to the final voters list for Bihar following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise are fresh ones or those re-included from the 65 lakh voters who were deleted in the draft roll, and asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to clarify this.

The two-judge bench, presided by Justice Surya Kant and also comprising Justice Joymalya Bagchi, was responding to submissions by the petitioner NGO Association for Democratic Rights (ADR) and others stating that the 3.66 lakh voters who were deleted in the final list – in addition to the 65 lakh removed in the draft list – had not been given individual orders informing them of the same.

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Justice Bagchi stated, “You will definitely agree

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