New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sought the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) response to a batch of pleas filed by various petitioners including the Kerala government challenging the ECI’s decision to carry out Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of the voter roll in Kerala.
A bench led by Justice Surya Kant also sought the ECI’s response to a plea filed by the Indian National Congress (INC) leader and MP from Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh Tanuj Punia, challenging the ECI’s decision to carry out SIR exercise in UP.
The Supreme Court has listed the batch of pleas challenging SIR in Kerala to be heard on November 26. It has not yet fixed a date for the hearing on plea against SIR in UP.
The Kerala government had recently approached the Supreme Court against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise currently underway in the state, saying the manner in which it is being undertaken is “not conducive to the democratic polity of the country” and warned of ‘administrative impasse” if the SIR is permitted to continue alongside the local body elections in December.
Earlier, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) approached the apex court seeking an immediate halt to the SIR exercise.
