New Delhi, July 25 -- The Delhi High Court on Friday questioned the Election Commission of India (ECI) over compelling government school teachers to serve as booth level officers (BLOs) and enumeration staff for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the Capital, observing that such assignments should be voluntary rather than mandatory. A bench of chief justice DK Upadhyaya and justice Tejas Karia stated, "Can these instructions issued by you be mandatory? You say you are compensating them and asking them to come on holidays. They need rest..." The court was hearing a petition challenging the ECI's July 14 order requisitioning government school teachers in Ambedkar Nagar for SIR-related duties. ECI submitted that government teachers were assigned duties outside school hours and on holidays. Shruti kakkar...