New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the ECI's (Election Commission of India) decision to use 2002 as the cut-off year for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Sikkim. The Court was hearing a plea by Sikkimese Mulniwasi Surakcha Sangh seeking 1993 to be treated as the base year instead, claiming that the 2002 revision had resulted in the inclusion of migrant populations in the electoral rolls.

A bench of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana questioned the locus of the petitioner organisation and noted that no political party or other stakeholder from Sikkim had approached the Court against the use of 2002 as the cut-off year.

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