“Bihar SIR process voter-friendly: Supreme Court says 11 documents better than 7”, India Today, August 13, 2025:

“The Supreme Court on Wednesday described Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as “voter-friendly,” highlighting its expansion of acceptable identity documents and rejecting concerns about Aadhaar exclusion.

“They are expanding the number of documents of identity. We understand your exclusionary arguments maybe with respect to Aadhaar, but the expansion of documents followed by SIR is in fact voter-friendly and not exclusionary,” the bench observed. “It gives them more options. From 7, there are now 11 documents.”

The court also examined whether an enumeration form that encompasses the statutory form could be considered contradictory or more inclusive. “If an enumeration form takes within its fold the statutory form, will it be in violation or a more inclusive compliance?” the bench asked…….”

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