New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to urgently hear a fresh challenge to the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of Delhi's electoral rolls, with the petition questioning why the names of nearly 3.31 million voters issued notices for "logical discrepancies" or lack of mapping have not been made public, and what precisely triggered those notices.

Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant said the plea would be taken up on September 22 along with other SIR matters already pending before the court, while giving the fresh petition precedence.

The petition, filed by activists Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri through advocate Prashant Bhushan, comes against the backdrop of the exclusion of 4.76 million names from D...