NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday the plea filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound state scheduled to be held this year.
As per the cause list published on the website of the apex court, a Bench led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and comprising Justices Joymalya Bagchi and N.V. Anjaria will take up Banerjee's petition along with similar pleas filed by Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs Dola Sen and Derek O'Brien for hearing on February 9.
Questioning the legality of the SIR process, Chief Minister Banerjee, in her petition has accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of acting with political bias and alleged that the manner in which the voter revision exercise is being carried out would result in the deletion of names of lakhs of voters belonging to marginalised sections of society.
She has sought interim directions restraining the poll body from deleting the name of any voter during the SIR exercise, particularly those placed under the "logical discrepancy" category.