The West Bengal Congress Committee has approached the Supreme Court seeking reliefs with respect to Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in the state.

The matter was mentioned today before a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, seeking listing tomorrow on the ground that pleas challenging SIR are already due to come up tomorrow.

Initially, Justice Kant said that the bench is only seized of Bihar SIR matter and the prerogative to list matter pertaining to West Bengal SIR before any bench lies with CJI BR Gavai. However, when the counsel pointed out that a petition related to Tamil Nadu is also listed before the bench tomorrow, Justice Kant said, "alright, we will find out".

Notably, a PIL challenging West Bengal SIR is also pending before

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