The Supreme Court is likely to take up on October 13 a petition seeking a probe by an SIT led by an ex-judge into allegations of electoral roll manipulation levelled by Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in Bengaluru Central and other constituencies.

Filed by advocate Rohit Pandey, the petition has urged the top court to stop further revision or finalisation of electoral rolls be undertaken by the Election Commission until an independent audit of the rolls was done and the court's directions were complied with.

It also sought a direction to the poll panel to publish electoral rolls in accessible, machine-readable and OCR-compliant formats to enable meaningful verification, audit and public scrutiny.

According to the top court website, Pandey’s petition is tentatively listed for hearing o

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