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Refusing to intervene successful the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls successful Kerala, the Kerala High Court connected Friday closed a plea by the State to defer the revision till December 21.
The State had approached the tribunal seeking its deferment, owed to what it feared was a imaginable administrative standstill if it is conducted simultaneously with the section assemblage polls.
The tribunal near it unfastened for the petitioner to determination the Supreme Court oregon to attack the High Court depending connected the result of (similar) petitions pending earlier the Supreme Court connected the matter. The State sought deferral of the SIR till December 21 to implicit the canvass process.
Stating that akin matters were pending earlier the Supreme Court and that the revision was a time-bound process, the tribunal observed that it would beryllium due if the apex tribunal took a determination connected whether the revision process ought to beryllium deferred oregon not.
The Election Commission of India submitted that determination were galore different petitions earlier the apex tribunal that sought deferral of the SIR process, citing aggregate reasons.
