Bihar voter list row hearing LIVE: SC Bench set to hear pleas against electoral rolls revision

Bihar : 08/07/2025: To go with Sobhana's Article: A Booth Level Officer (BLO) checks documents during Special Investigation Revision to electoral roll Drive at Kamalpur Village under Jalalgarh Block in Purnia district in Bihar on July 08, 2025. Photo by: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap/ The Hindu | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP

A Supreme Court Bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi is scheduled to hear arguments for and against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll under way in poll-bound Bihar and decide if the drive, initiated by the Election Commission of India, needs to be stayed for the time being.

Over 10 petitions filed by Opposition leaders, activists, NGOs and lawyers have been listed before the Bench, which had agreed to urgently list the case on July 10.

The petitions have argued that an interim order from the apex court staying the June 24 notification announcing the SIR was necessary as crores of voters, drawn from the poor and marginalised sections of the society, were put on a tight leash to produce documents to prove their domicile or face the prospect of disenfranchisement.

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