New Delhi, March 25 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls proceeded smoothly in all states except West Bengal, despite comparable or more complex issues elsewhere.

Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the SIR in the state, a bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and justice Joymalya Bagchi said, "Except WB, in every state it has happened smoothly. There were issues more complicated, if not equally complicated, but there were hardly any cases before the court. These were states such as Gujarat where the deletion of voters was much higher."

In Gujarat, 6.8 million voters were deleted after the SIR, reducing the electorate from over 50 million to 44 million.

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