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The Supreme Court on Monday ordered that the Aadhaar card must be treated as the 12th document for the purpose of identity for inclusion of voters in the revised voters list of Bihar in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.

Supreme Court directs EC to include Aadhaar as 12th prescribed document for Bihar SIR

New Delhi, Sep 8 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Election Commission to include Aadhaar as a 12th prescribed document for establishing the identity of a voter in special intensive revision (SIR) exercise of electoral roll in poll-bound Bihar. At the moment for Bihar SIR, there are 11 prescribed documents which electors have

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Bihar SIR row: Supreme Court asks Election Commission to publish details of 65 lakh deleted voters with reasons

New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to publish details of 65 lakh deleted names from the voters list with reasons of non-inclusion to enhance transparency in Bihar’s special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral roll. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi passed

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SIR appears to be trust deficit issue: Supreme Court

New Delhi, Aug 11 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Tuesday called the Bihar SIR (special intensive revision) row “largely a trust deficit issue” as the Election Commission of India (ECI) claimed roughly 6.5 crore people of the total 7.9 crore voting population didn’t have to file any documents for they or their parents featured in

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