New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) Thursday charged the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and activist Yogendra Yadav with relying on a name-recognition software to raise “baseless” claims of religious bias against the ECI in court. Meanwhile, it denied the targeted removal of Muslims from Bihar’s electoral rolls during the special intensive revision.

The ADR and activist Yogendra Yadav had filed petitions challenging the ECI’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the Supreme Court, alleging that a significant number of voters, particularly Muslims, were illegally removed from the rolls and that the process lacked transparency.

The ECI said ADR’s assertion is communal and its approach in the case must be “deprecated.” The poll panel spelt out its stand in an affidav

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