The Supreme Court on Thursday, 14 August, ordered the Election Commission of India to make public the names of 65 lakh voters deleted from electoral rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar, along with reasons for their exclusion, including death, migration, or double registration.
The apex court also said that the poll body must publicise that those excluded from the lists can furnish their Aadhaar cards with their applications to be included in the final list, LiveLaw.in reported.
The directive comes just four days after the EC told the apex court that the law does not require the poll body to prepare or share any separate list of people missing from draft electoral rolls, or to publish the reasons for their non-inclusion.