The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Election Commission to provide the details of the 3.6 lakh voters whose names were deleted after the publication of the draft electoral roll in Bihar amid the special intensive revision of the list, reported PTI.

The draft rolls were published on August 1 with the names of 7.24 crore voters – 65 lakh short of the 7.89 crore voters who were in the roll before the exercise began.

The Election Commission then started a process of adding and deleting voters from this draft roll. Between August 1 and September 30, it added 21.5 lakh voters and deleted 3.6 lakh voters, showed the final roll.

On Tuesday, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymlaya Bagchi said that everybody had a right to appeal against their exclusion from the list. But a solution

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