India, Oct. 15 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday sought responses from the Election Commission of India and other officials on a plea filed by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and several opposition leaders alleging large-scale voter deletions and irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued notices to the poll panel, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, while tagging the petition with pending cases.

"We are issuing notice ... Tagging with pending cases. But we would like to ask one of the petitioners about his conduct," the bench said.

During the hearing, lawyers ...