SIR row: SC says Aadhaar valid; deleted voters to fill online form – what top court said | India News

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday permitted Aadhaar as a valid document for applicants seeking inclusion in the electoral list of poll-bound Bihar following special intensive revision.A bench of justices Suryakant and Joymala Bagchi directed the Elections Commission to accept application of voters who were excluded in the draft electoral list through online mode and said that the physical submission of forms is not necessary.

What did SC say

The Supreme Court is dealing with a bunch of petitions challenging poll body special intensive revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls ahead of the state’s Assembly elections.On August 14, the top court directed the poll panel to publish by August 19 details of the 65 lakh voters excluded from the draft electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar to enhance “transparency” .Observing that the EC should put at rest the “narrative being built” against it, the bench had also ordered that the details should include reasons for their non-inclusion during the ongoing SIR exercise. “Transparency will create voter confidence.”The revision of the voters’ list in Bihar–the first since 2003–has sparked a huge political row. The SIR’s findings have reduced the total number of 7.9 crore registered voters in Bihar, from before the exercise, to 7.24 crore.

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