The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI), seeking its detailed response to a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.

"Issue notice to the ECI. We will seek reply from the ECI and others and then we will hear the matter," said a two-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Surya Kant and also comprising Justice Joymalya Bagchi, and posted the matter for further hearing to November 26.

The top court also directed the High Courts to keep in abeyance the petitions filed before them in relation to the SIR in various states including Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Bihar.

The court heard the petitions filed by Trinamool Congress MP Dola Sen

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