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The Supreme Court connected Thursday (October 16, 2025) said it expects the Election Commission of India to look into typographical errors and different mistakes successful the last Bihar electoral rotation prepared aft the Special Intensive Revision workout arsenic a liable authorization and travel retired with remedial measures.
A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said it volition perceive connected November 4 the ineligible issues pertaining to the Bihar SIR exercise.
The canvass sheet said that since its work of the last electoral rotation connected September 30, not a azygous entreaty has been filed by immoderate elector against sanction deletion.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO 'Association of Democratic Reforms, said details of a elector claiming his sanction was not added successful the last list, which was alleged by the ECI arsenic fake connected the October 7 proceeding successful the matter, were true.
He said that ECI should disclose however galore voters were deleted and for what to guarantee transparency successful the exercise.
The Bench noted that the electoral rotation volition beryllium freezed connected October 17 successful immoderate constituencies, which are going into canvass successful archetypal signifier and connected October 20 for those going into canvass successful 2nd phase.
On October 7, the apical tribunal asked the ECI to supply details of 3.66 lakh voters who were portion of the draught elector database but were excluded from the last electoral rotation prepared aft Bihar's SIR exercise, saying determination is "confusion" implicit the matter.
On September 30, the ECI, portion publishing the last electoral database of the poll-bound Bihar, said the full fig of electors has travel down by astir 47 lakh to 7.42 crore successful the last electoral rotation from 7.89 crore earlier the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the elector database carried retired by the Election Commission of India.
The last fig has, however, accrued by 17.87 lakh from 7.24 crore electors named successful the draught database issued connected August 1, which had removed 65 lakh voters from the archetypal database connected assorted accounts, including deaths, migration and duplication of voters.
While 21.53 lakh caller electors person been added to the draught list, 3.66 lakh names person been removed, resulting successful a nett summation of 17.87 lakh.
The Assembly elections successful Bihar volition beryllium held successful 121 seats of the 243-member Assembly connected November 6, portion the remaining 122 constituencies volition spell to polls connected November 11. The counting of votes volition beryllium held connected November 14.
