India, Sept. 17 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on September 21 a plea challenging the deletion of names from Delhi's electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.

A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and comprising Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana said it would hear the matter on Monday, when other pleas relating to the SIR exercise are also listed.

Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for petitioners Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri, submitted that the Election Commission has issued notices to 33 lakh of the 47 lakh people whose names were deleted from the draft electoral rolls in Delhi.

The petitioners have sought disclosure of the criteria, definitions, algorithmic paramete...