India, Sept. 8 -- Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday undertook before the Supreme Court that Aadhaar card will also be taken into consideration for the purpose of establishing the identity of a person for the purpose of inclusion/exclusion of a voter in the revised voter list of Bihar.

The Supreme Court was hearing pleas over the contentious Bihar SIR exercise, under which the EC is revising the electoral rolls in the poll-bound state and has asked for 11 documents, which till now did not include Aadhaar, from the persons who have been excluded from the lists.

The Supreme Court said in its order on Monday that Aadhaar card shall be treated as the 12th document by authorities.

"However, it is clarified that authorities shall b...