‘Only in Bengal…’: SC notes ‘smooth’ SIR in other states, Mamata’s lawyers pitch supplementary list issue

The supplementary list of the SIR was released on Monday night, but the complications did not end. It is still not clear how many names have been left out.

New Delhi: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in West Bengal, ahead of the Assembly elections, is in its final phase, but the alleged complications and complaints about it are refusing to subside.

The complex SIR process in Bengal

The supplementary list of the SIR was released on Monday night, but the complications did not end. It is still not clear how many names have been left out. In this situation, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court, so that voters on the pending list are given the right to vote based on the previous list. The Election Commission of India has stated that it can publish supplementary lists daily if necessary. The case was heard by a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi.

The arguments of Mamata’s lawyers

At the beginning of the hearing on Tuesday, Mamata Banerjee’s lawyer Shyam Divan........

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