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The Supreme Court on August 14 directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to publish a booth-wise list of 6.5 million voters proposed to be excluded from Bihar’s electoral roll during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
The last SIR in Bihar was held in 2003. Between 2008-09 and 2024-25, the ECI conducted 17 Special Summary Revisions (SSRs), typically from October to December, using January 1 as the qualifying date. These revisions removed 9.4 million voters, with 1.7 million and 1.6 million deletions in 2009-10 and 2023-24, respectively.
The current SIR would surpass previous records if all the deletions proposed are
