Supreme Court issues notice on SIR petition, seeks records of EC decision-making

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI), chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and election commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi on a petition filed by Rahul Gandhi and other INDIA bloc leaders alleging large-scale voter deletions and irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and justice Joymalya Bagchi sought responses from the poll panel and the other respondents, and tagged the plea with matters already pending before the court concerning SIR.The petitioners have sought scrutiny of the ECI’s decision-making during the revision exercise, alleging that decisions were taken without adequate collective deliberation and that eligible voters were excluded without sufficient safeguards.The plea seeks disclosure of official records, including files, minutes, notings and objections recorded by election commissioners, as well as access logs relating to the ECINET and ERONET electoral-roll…