India, Sept. 4 -- Former election commissioner Ashok Lavasa has described the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as an unfair procedure being imposed on millions of people.

He said while the judiciary has validated the exercise and the government has termed it legal, the question is whether it is fair.

"Of course it is legal. But is it fair? That is the question. Because that is what justice is all about," Lavasa said while delivering the Jagdeep Singh Chhokar Memorial Lecture organised by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) here on Thursday.

Lavasa said statutory institutions, constitutional bodies and governments increasingly appear to be functioning on the principle that whatever they do is right si...