Bombay High Court to hear plea seeking transparency in Maharashtra SIR

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The Bombay High Court is to hear a petition seeking transparency in Maharashtra’s SIR exercise. Petitioners argue that citizens’ rights are at stake and warn that as many as 2.1 crore names could be removed from the state’s electoral rolls.

The petitioners submitted that the matter raised an issue concerning citizens’ rights. Their counsel told the Bench that the exercise could result in the deletion of 2.1 crore names from the electoral rolls in the State