The Supreme Court on Tuesday (November 11) issued a notice to the Election Commission of India (EC) on the petitions challenging the poll body's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and West Bengal.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi asked the EC to respond to the fresh petitions within two weeks. It also asked the Madras and Calcutta High Courts to keep in abeyance any proceedings on petitions challenging the SIR of the electoral rolls in the two states, while permitting the listing of an intervention application filed by the AIADMK supporting the exercise in Tamil Nadu.

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"Since this Court is seized of the matter pertaining to legality of SIR

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