The Kerala High Court today reserved its order on the State government's plea to defer the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the State, ahead of elections to Local Self Government Institutions.

During the hearing, Justice VG Arun orally expressed disinclination to hear the matter and asked the State to approach the Supreme Court, where similar matters are pending.

" I am not saying that there is no power of judicial review for this Court. I'm just saying that in view of the matters before the Supreme Court, it would be appropriate, or rather inappropriate for this Court to...the other option is, abide by the SC direction...jurisdictional HCs to keep in abeyance/defer the writ proceedings if any filed in those HCs touching the validity of SIR in their states...ulti

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