New Delhi, April 13 -- The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea by a group of 13 people seeking its intervention in the deletion of their names from the voter list during the Special Institutional Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, where polling for the first phase of the assembly election will be held on April 23.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi termed the petition "premature", directing the aggrieved parties to approach the established appellate tribunals instead.

"Since the petitioners (Quaraisha Yeasmin and others) have already approached the appellate tribunals. in our considered view, the apprehensions expressed in the petition are premature. If the plea is allowed, then necessar...