Supreme Court issues notice to ECI, CEC on plea by Rahul Gandhi, INDIA bloc leaders challenging SIR, voter deletions

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI) and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on a batch of petitions filed by Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders challenging large-scale voter deletions and alleged irregularities in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls..A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi sought the responses of the ECI and CEC and tagged the pleas with petitions already pending before the Court challenging the validity of SIR in various States."We are issuing notice and tagging it with the matters already pending. Somebody will accept notice on behalf of the Election Commission of India. Otherwise, serve them," the Court ordered.Pertinently, the Court said that it will ask one of the petitioners to explain his conduct.