India SIR exercise 'accurate', approach of parties was to discredit: EC

New Delhi: The Election Commission on Thursday termed the Bihar SIR exercise as \"accurate\" and told the Supreme Court that the petitioner political parties and NGOs are merely content with making \"false allegations\" to discredit the exercise.

The poll body also told the Supreme Court that not a single appeal has been filed by any voter against name deletion since the publication of the final electoral roll.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, which noted the absence of political parties from the hearing due to rallies in the poll-bound state, said it expects the poll panel to look into typographical errors and other mistakes in the final list of Bihar electoral roll prepared after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise as a responsible authority and come out wi