File separate pleas on SIR’s impact on West Bengal polls: Supreme Court tells TMC

The Supreme Court is hearing pleas challenging the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal. A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and justice Joymalya Bagchi has asked the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to file separate applications over claims that voter deletions affected the recent West Bengal assembly elections. The Election Commission of India (ECI) maintains that any challenge to poll results can only be pursued through election petitions by defeated candidates. The court will consider ECI's objections once the fresh applications are filed.