The Supreme Court docket is listening to petitions difficult the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar forward of state elections. Through the listening to, the court docket made an oral commentary that the method seems ‘voter pleasant’. Justice Bagchi famous that increasing the variety of acceptable identification paperwork from seven to eleven is extra inclusive for the citizens. This comes a day after the court docket agreed with the Election Fee that Aadhaar is just not conclusive proof of citizenship. Petitioners have argued that the SIR train is exclusionary and arbitrary, claiming round 65 lakh names have been deleted from the draft voter listing. The Supreme Court docket said it’s analyzing the technical and constitutional validity of the method, not political arguments, to make sure no citizen is unfairly excluded from voting.







