New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on September 1 the RJD and AIMIM’s pleas for extending the deadline to file claims and objections in the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.

The deadline for filing claims and objections for inclusion or exclusion of elector names from the draft roll is September 1.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant, Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi on Friday agreed to list the applications filed by political parties on Monday, which implied September 1 as the parties requested an urgent hearing.

But the order uploaded in the evening said all petitions will come up for hearing on September 8. However, a latest order uploaded on the apex court said all applications will be heard on September 1.

Sources said some parties had approached the court master and objected to the date of September 8 reflected in the order, as the bench had said only “list on Monday” and the applications for deadline extension would be infructuous after September 1, which is also a Monday.

Sources point out the order was amended on Saturday morning after the inadvertent error was spotted. Both September 1 and September 8 are Mondays, and the main matters related to SIR are listed on September 8.

On Friday, advocate Prashant Bhushan and senior advocate........

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