‘SIR Constitutional, Cannot Be Termed Illegal Because It Goes Beyond Ordinary Voter Revision Process’: Supreme Court Upholds ECI’s Voter Rehaul

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the Election Commission of India's (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which was first undertaken in Bihar, holding that the exercise is constitutional, legally tenable and cannot be struck down merely because it differs from the ordinary process of voter-roll revision.