The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Election Commission (EC) on petitions challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and West Bengal.

A Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi asked the EC to respond to the petitions filed by the DMK, the CPI(M) and the West Bengal unit of the Congress and Trinamool Congress challenging the October 27 notification of the poll panel in this regard and posted the matter for further hearing on November 26.

The top court asked the Madras and Calcutta high courts to keep in abeyance proceedings on petitions challenging the SIR of the electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.

It also agreed to hear an intervention application filed by the AIADMK in support of the SIR in Tamil Nadu as

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