The Supreme Court on Friday (November 7, 2025) urgently listed on November 11 detailed arguments addressing the very legality of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise that was kicked off before the ongoing Bihar Assembly elections on June 24, and then expanded, in a second phase, by the Election Commission of India to cover 51 crore voters in 12 States and Union Territories, including Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala and Puducherry.
A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi fixed the case for 11.15 a.m. on Tuesday after advocates Prashant Bhushan and Neha Rathi made an oral mentioning. The SIR case had been listed earlier on November 4, but the two judges could not take it up as they were part of a Constitution Bench hearing another case on that day.
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