SIR Row: SC Seeks Election Commission’s Clarification On Final Lists In Bihar

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday orally remarked that every voter has a right to appeal against their exclusion from the electoral rolls, while expressing concern over the “confusion” surrounding large-scale deletions and additions during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters in poll-bound Bihar.

After the apex court was informed that several names had been omitted from the electoral list without communication of the order, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said: “If anyone can give us a list that out of these 3.66 lakh voters, these are the people to whom orders have not been communicated, we’ll direct the Election Commission to communicate. Each individual has a right to appeal.”

The Justice Surya Kant-led Bench noted the submission that while 65 lakh n