After the release of the final list of special intensive revision (SIR) in Bihar, on Tuesday (October 7, 2025), the Supreme Court demanded that the names of 3.66 lakh people removed from the list be made public. The petitioners say that neither notice was sent to any of these and their names were removed on the objection of others. On this, the court asked the petitioners for whom he is raising his voice, there are some who will not come to court even if the name is out of the list.
Justice Suryakant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi were hearing the bench case. Senior Advocates Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Prashant Bhushan appeared on behalf of the petitioners. Prashant Bhushan said that after reviewing the final list, it was found that it had complicated the situation. He said that a large number of people were excluded in the name of improvement in the voter list. Abhishek Manu Singhvi also said that people did not get information that their name was removed and no one was given an appeal. Advocate Vrinda Grover also said that the information available on the Election Commission website is not clear, in which information is not available according to gender or age.
Some will not come to court even after removing the name from the alien list, Justice Suryakanth said
According to The Hindu report, Justice Suryakant asked Advocate Prashant Bhushan for whom the petitioners are doing so. He said, ‘There are some aliens here which will not even raise their voice to remove their names from the voter list. They will not come to court. So Mr. Bhushan is doing all this for whom? ‘ Justice was hearing Suryakant’s bench case. Justice Suryakant said, “We do not want this matter to become an uncontrolled inquiry.”
What did the Election Commission say?
On these arguments of the petitioners, Election Commission counsel Rakesh Dwivedi said that information was given to every voter. He said that everyone is claiming anything, so an affidavit should be taken from them. Rakesh Dwivedi said that last time Yogendra Yadav had brought some people to court. No accountability is showing.
Rakesh Dwivedi said, ‘We have handed over the list to every political party. No person himself is coming to the Election Commission. NGOs sitting in Delhi are making noise. These people have not yet filed an application challenging the final list. They are arguing on the old petition. The election has been announced. We have to settle for this.
During this, Advocate Ashwin Upadhyay demanded from the court that all cases should be transferred to Patna High Court. Senior Advocate Vijay Hansariya said that here these petitioners say some things, then ‘vote theft’ is created outside.

