SC hearing on SIR LIVE updates: SC to continue hearing pleas challenging ECI revision of voter rolls in Bengal, Tamil Nadu

A Booth Level Officer (BLO) astatine enactment during a sit-in objection adjacent the Election Commission’s (ECI) bureau implicit "excessive enactment pressure" during the ongoing SIR process successful Kolkata, West Bengal. File | Photo Credit: PTI

The Supreme Court connected Thursday (December 4, 2025) volition proceed proceeding aggregate petitions challenging the law validity of the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of elector rolls successful West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and different States.

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In its erstwhile proceeding connected Tuesday (December 2), the petitioner broadside challenging the workout claimed successful the Supreme Court that the ECI has morphed into a “despot” that has transformed a “suspicion” astir the purity of the electoral rotation into a monolithic countrywide survey which whitethorn not lone pb to disenfranchisement but besides statelessness for many. Advocate Prashant Bhushan besides raised a question connected wherefore the lists are not disposable successful a instrumentality readable format.

Meanwhile, the ECI, in abstracted affidavits successful the Supreme Court, submitted that 95.65% of electors successful Tamil Nadu and 99.77% successful West Bengal person already been supplied with pre-filled enumeration forms, dismissing allegations of “mass disenfranchisement”. The committee said it had already received backmost 58.7% enumeration forms and digitised them.