New Delhi: SC Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi bench will hear a petition filed by LoP Rahul Gandhi and INDIA bloc leaders challenging SIR of electoral rolls, alleging large-scale deletion of genuine voters and irregularities in the exercise.

According to the SC’s website cause list, the comprised CJI bench will hear the petition filed by the LoP Rahul Gandhi, AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge. The other petitioners include TMC MP Saugata Roy, SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav, RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, NCP leader Supriya Sule, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut, CPI leader D Raja, JMM MP Mahua Majhi, CPI(M) general secretary M A Baby and IUML leader E T Mohammed Basheer.

The petition names the Election Commission of India, CEC Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi as respondents. The opposition leaders have alleged that the SIR exercise is leading to the large-scale deletion of genuine voters, particularly young people, migrants and marginalized communities. They have challenged the legality of the revision and sought judicial scrutiny of the Election Commission’s decision-making process.