New Delhi, Feb. 20 -- In an extraordinary move to remove impediments in the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered the deputation of district judges to resolve pending voter claims of people categorised in the Commission's "logical discrepancy" list.

Invoking the apex courts' powers under Article 142 (special power to do complete justice) of the Constitution, a bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi observed that it had not option left but to request the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to intervene on the issue by deputing district judges to resolve pending voter claims chiefly with resp...