<h1>Supreme Court affirms Election Commission's authority for Special Intensive Revision under Section 21(3) of Representation of Peoples Act</h1> The Supreme Court upheld the Election Commission's authority to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, rejecting petitions challenging its legal basis. The Court emphasized that electoral rolls must be dynamic to remove names of deceased or migrated voters and found the expansion of acceptable identity documents from seven to eleven as inclusive rather than exclusionary. The Court referenced Section 21(3) of the Representation of the Peoples Act and Article 324 of the Constitution, affirming the EC's residual power to revise rolls 'in such manner as it may think fit.' Challenges by opposition parties and an NGO alleging lack of legal basis and procedural issues, including removal of search features from draft rolls, were dismissed. The Court recognized the EC's discretion in balancing constitutional rights and powers in managing electoral roll revisions.