India, Feb. 15 -- The hearing phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal concluded on Saturday, with officials aware of the matter saying that an additional 661,000 names may be deleted from the final electoral roll.

The hearings on claims and objections to the draft voters' list, released on December 16, 2025, began on December 17 last year, and around 15.2 million people whose names could not be matched with the 2002 electoral roll or who had logical discrepancies were called.

Election officials said that 498,000 of these electors did not turn up for hearings, while another 163,000 were found ineligible, bringing the total likely deletions to 661,000. To be sure, these probable deletions are in addition to t...