The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a batch of pleas challenging the Election Commission’s decision to conduct the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, and other states. A bench comprising Justices Surya Kant, SVN Bhatti, and Joymalya Bagchi issued notice to the Election Commission on all the fresh petitions filed by various political leaders, which challenge SIR exercises in different states on different grounds.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for a petitioner challenging the SIR exercise in Kerala, submitted that local body elections are also scheduled to be held in the state, and therefore, there is some urgency involved in the matter.
The bench directed that the pleas challenging the SIR exercise in Kerala will be listed on November 26. The remaining petitions challenging the electoral roll revision exercise in other states will be taken up for hearing in the first or second week of December.
The top court is already hearing a batch of pleas challenging the validity of the Election Commission’s decision to conduct the pan-India SIR exercise. On November 11, the Supreme Court sought separate responses from the poll panel on pleas filed by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, CPI(M), West Bengal Congress, and Trinamool Congress leaders, challenging the SIR of the electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal respectively.
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