India, May 12 -- The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to file separate applications over claims that the outcome of the recent West Bengal assembly elections was materially affected by voter deletions carried out during the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise, even as the Election Commission of India (ECI) maintained that any challenge to poll results could only be pursued through election petitions by defeated candidates.

A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a batch of pleas challenging the SIR exercise in West Bengal when senior advocate and TMC MP Kalyan Bandhopadhyay argued that in at least 31 constituencies won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the BJ...