India, Feb. 10 -- The Supreme Court on Monday made it clear to the States that it will not allow anyone to create any impediment in completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and directed the DGP of West Bengal to file an affidavit on the Election Commission of India's (ECI) allegation of burning of its notices by miscreants.

Noting that West Bengal has provided a list of 8,505 Group B officers to the poll panel for the SIR exercise, the SC also extended the deadline for scrutiny of documents submitted by affected persons by one week beyond February 14 as this process is likely to take some time and to help electoral registration officers (EROs) to take appropriate decisions.

A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kan...