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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday (October 26) issued a notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on a writ petition challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Maharashtra but didn’t grant any immediate relief.

A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana declined to pass interim order without hearing the poll body on whether to push back the deadline for claims and objections or to stop the ECI from releasing the final voters’ list. The case will be heard next on November 5, Live Law reported.

Appearing for petitioner Arun Anandagiri, senior advocate Arvind P. Datar told the apex court that roughly 3 crore of the state’s 9 crore voters, about a third, have been dropped since........

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