New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday announced sweeping changes in the procedure of the special intensive revision (SIR), relaxed hearing requirements and extended the deadline for submission of documents for Delhi and Maharashtra, responding to mounting criticism of the controversial exercise that has disenfranchised millions of people. In a meeting of chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and election commissioners SS Sandhu and Vivek Joshi - the first such public meeting since controversy broke out over the poll body's conduct - ECI also ordered a review of its ECINET portal and defended an addition to Form 6 - used by new electors to enrol themselves - by claiming that the Supreme Court upheld it...