West Bengal SIR: SC to hear plea seeking voting rights for excluded electors with appeals pending

Parmod Kumar New Delhi, Oct 9 (UNI) The Supreme Court will hear on October 16 a plea seeking that voters excluded from West Bengal's electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), whose appeals against exclusion are pending before appellate tribunals, be permitted to vote in the upcoming municipal elections in the State. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana advanced the hearing in view of concerns that voters awaiting decisions on their appeals could otherwise miss the November municipal elections. The bench also discussed whether appeals seeking inclusion of names in the electoral…