India, May 23 -- The SIR-linked appellate tribunals in West Bengal have disposed of only 6,581 cases, around 0.26 per cent of the nearly 25 lakh appeals filed against decisions taken by judicial officers during the electoral roll revision exercise, official data showed on Thursday.

Of the cases decided by 12 of the 19 tribunals till May 14, 4,043 appeals were allowed, meaning names of nearly 61.5 per cent of disposed cases made it back to the electoral rolls, while 1,267 were rejected, according to the ECI data.

The status of over 1,200 remaining cases among the disposed matters was not immediately clear from the data. The tribunals were constituted on March 20, following Supreme Court directions to establish an appellate mechanism for ...