Bengaluru, July 29 -- The state high court on Tuesday declined to interfere with the Election Commission of India's (ECI) timeline for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, saying that the poll body alone must decide whether the schedule allows enough time to complete the exercise.

A bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and justice KS Hemalekha disposed of a public interest litigation filed by historian Ramachandra Guha, writer-activist Devanura Mahadeva, and two other residents of the state, who had sought an extension of every phase of the revision exercise from one month to three months.

The court said the petition was "premature" and that there existed no reason to assume the ECI will not be able address an...