India, April 14 -- The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea by a group of 13 people seeking its intervention in the deletion of their names from the voter list during the Special Institutional Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, where polling for the first phase of the assembly election will be held on April 23.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi termed the petition "premature", directing the aggrieved parties to approach the established appellate tribunals instead. The CJI declined to pass any order on fixing a timeline for the 19 appellate tribunals to decide the appeals of deleted voters.

"Since the petitioners (Quaraisha Yeasmin and others) have already approached the appellate tribuna...