New Delhi, May 27 -- Supreme Court of India on 27 May upheld the constitutional validity of Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar.

The top court said that the poll panel acted in the interest of free and fair elections adding that it has has power to conduct SIR of electoral rolls under constitutional scheme and Representation of the People Act.

The verdict was with regard to a batch of pleas have claimed that the Election Commission does not have the powers under Article 326 of the Constitution, the Representation of the People Act,1950 and the Rules made under it to carry out SIR on such a larger form.

The bench said the SIR could not be scrapped merely because it did not follow certain procedural m...