In Bihar, the SIR exercise, aimed at removing duplicate entries in electoral rolls, started on June 25. It uses the 2003 electoral rolls as the base. The process includes door-to-door verification and ...

The petitioners have argued that this move imposes fresh documentation requirements and wrongly shifts the burden of proof onto citizens. They warned that this could disproportionately affect poor and ...

Petitions challenging the Election Commission of India's (ECI) move to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar were filed in the Supreme Court, to which the ...