SC says legality of EC's 'logical discrepancy' checks in SIR remains undecided

The Supreme Court on Wednesday clarified that it has not yet delivered a final ruling on the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) use of the “logical discrepancy” category to flag voters’ details during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana said its earlier decision allowing the Election Commission to use the category in West Bengal was only an interim measure. It also clarified that the court’s ruling on the SIR exercise in Bihar had not settled every legal question surrounding the revision process.The clarification came during a hearing on a petition alleging a lack of transparency in notices issued to voters during the ongoing SIR exercise in Delhi.