India, Oct. 14 -- A special intensive revision (SIR) is a fresh preparation of the electoral roll and the absence of a voter's name from the draft roll does not mean that it has been deleted, the Election Commission of India (ECI) told the Bombay High Court in Goa on Tuesday, distinguishing the exercise from a special summary revision (SSR) where the roll is only updated.

A bench of justices Valmiki Menezes and Amit Jamsandekar, which was hearing a petition filed by Goa resident Paresh Salgaonkar, claiming his name was taken off the electoral roll for having changed his address prior to the enumeration phase of the SIR exercise.

Senior advocate Ashutosh Kumbhakoni, representing ECI, told the Goa bench that unlike the routine SSR that me...