New Delhi, July 29 -- The Supreme Court will hear petitions challenging the Election Commission of India's Special Intensive Revision exercise in poll-bound Bihar on August 12 and 13.

The bench, comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, while responding to the apprehensions that 65 lakh voters are going to be excluded from the to-be-published draft list, observed orally that if there is any mass exclusion, then the Court will step in, according to legal news website LiveLaw.

Appearing for the Association for Democratic Reforms, Advocate Prashant Bhushan, informed the Court about the ECI's statement that 65 lakh persons have not submitted the enumeration forms during the SIR process as they are either dead or have perman...