India
Supreme Court asks Bengal poll officers to pursue appeals on SIR exclusion
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The Supreme Court has directed a group of West Bengal poll duty officers to pursue their appeals before the Appellate Tribunals. These officers were excluded from the electoral roll due to logical discrepancies in their personal details during the Special Intensive Revision process. The court did not intervene in their petition seeking permission to vote in the Assembly polls during the pendency of their appeals.