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SC begins hearing on pleas challenging EC's decision to revise Bihar electoral rolls
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....C begins hearing on pleas challenging EC's decision to revise Bihar electoral rolls<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 10-7-2025<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Jul 10 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday commenced hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the Election Commission's decision to undertake a special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound Bihar. A partial working day (PWD) bench compris....
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....ing Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi was told by senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, appearing for the poll panel, that he has preliminary objections to the petitions. Besides Dwivedi, senior advocates K K Venugopal and Maninder Singh are representing the EC. Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing for one of the petitioners, said the revision of electoral rolls can be permitt....
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....ed under the Representation of People Act. The entire SIR will cover around 7.9 crore citizens, he said, adding that even the voter ID and Aadhaar cards are not being considered. The hearing is underway. Over 10 petitions have been filed in the SC, including one by NGO 'Association for Democratic Reforms', the lead petitioner. RJD MP Manoj Jha and Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, Congress' ....
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....K C Venugopal, NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule, CPI leader D Raja, Samajwadi Party's Harinder Singh Malik, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Arvind Sawant, JMM's Sarfraz Ahmed and Dipankar Bhattacharya of CPI (ML) have also moved the top court, seeking direction for quashing the EC order. PTI SJK MNL DIV DIV<BR> News - Press release - PIB....