The Supreme Court on Thursday sought to ensure that no genuine voter in Bihar is left disenfranchised amid the chaos over the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, even as the courtroom witnessed sharp exchanges between the poll body and petitioners over allegations of false affidavits and large-scale deletions.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, hearing multiple petitions challenging the SIR, passed an interim direction requesting the Bihar State Legal Services Authority (SLSA) to step in and assist those whose names were deleted from the final electoral rolls in filing statutory appeals.

The bench asked the SLSA executive chairman to direct all District Legal Services Authorities (DLSAs) to immediately mobilise paralegal volunteers

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