India, Oct. 10 -- The Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear on October 16 pleas of voters deleted from the electoral roll under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in West Bengal for early disposal of their appeals against deletion.

The voters said alternatively they should be allowed to vote in the upcoming State civic polls in November.

A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana said they are aware of the difficulties faced by SIR tribunals and there are multi-faceted problems.

"We are trying to sort out these problems like the bulk of the appeals are of those who are seeking deletion of names of voters. We will be asking the tribunals to push back those appeals seeking deletion of name...