The Election Commission of India on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the final electoral list in the recently concluded Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar has been notified, and most of the names added to the final list are of new voters and few old voters.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi 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.

Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for petitioner Association for Democratic Reforms, demanded that the poll panel 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.

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