New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday called the Bihar special intensive revision (SIR) row in poll-bound Bihar "largely a trust deficit issue" as the Election Commission of India (ECI) claimed roughly 6.5 crore people of the total 7.9 crore voting population didn't have to file any documents for them or their parents featured in the 2003 electoral roll.

The top court is hearing a batch of pleas against the Election Commission's electoral roll revision exercise in Bihar, where assembly elections are due in October-November.

During the hearing, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi remarked that it "largely appears to be a case of trust deficit, nothing else" as it questioned the petitioners challenging the EC's...