US EditionMass inclusion and not exclusion should be goal of Bihar SIR, says Supreme Court
PASHCHIM CHAMPARAN, BIHAR, JUL 28 – The Supreme Court emphasized mass inclusion in Bihar's electoral rolls and noted that 91.6% of voters submitted forms, urging acceptance of Aadhaar and EPIC as valid identity proofs.
- On Monday, July 28, 2025, the Supreme Court of India urged the Election Commission of India to include Aadhaar and EPIC in Bihar’s voter roll revision, emphasizing ‘mass inclusion’.
- In a July 21 affidavit, the Supreme Court of India had asked the Election Commission of India to consider including Aadhaar and EPIC, but the poll body argued they couldn’t be standalone documents.
- Data from a July 27 press note shows 65 lakh individuals flagged, including deceased electors , shifted/not found voters , out of the 7.8 crore voters in Bihar.
- The bench stated it would fix on July 29 the final hearing schedule and warned that on July 29, 2025, the Court will ‘step in’ if there is ‘mass exclusion’.
- With hearings set for August 12 and 13, 2025, the court’s next session could be pivotal for Bihar’s electoral registration and democratic process.
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Bihar SIR: 65 Lakh electors flagged for deletion, SC said “if there is mass exclusion, we will immediately step in”
On July 29, 2025, the Supreme Court made its position unequivocally clear that if there is any “mass exclusion” of voters from the draft list, the Court will “step in”. This assurance came in response to the pressing concern raised by Advocate Prashant Bhushan, representing the ADR, that 65 lakh individuals had not submitted their enumeration forms during the SIR process. According to the ECI’s own press note on July 27, these 65 lakh individual…
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