India, Aug. 23 -- The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to allow voters excluded from the revised electoral rolls published on August 1 to submit their claims online or physically with Aadhaar card or any of the 11 prescribed documents in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in poll-bound Bihar. Emphasising that the entire enumeration exercise has to be voter friendly, a Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, at the same time expressed surprise over political parties not coming forward to assist the voters in filing objections.
The SC then directed the chief electoral officer of Bihar to implead political parties in the court proceedings. Senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, appearing for th...