India, Oct. 9 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered all the Bihar legal services authorities to provide free legal aid counsel to voters who were left out of the draft electoral rolls following the Election Commission's special intensive revision (SIR) in the state.

The top court's order comes a day after the bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi asked the poll body to furnish details of 3.7 lakh voters whose names were deleted after the SIR exercise in Bihar.

The Supreme Court requested the Bihar state legal services authority to send the necessary communication to all the secretaries in local authorities to provide free legal aid counsel and para-legal volunteers to assist the excluded people to file their appeals.

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