Supreme Court to deliver verdict on validity of SIR by EC today

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is set to pronounce its judgement on Wednesday on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of voter lists being carried out by the Election Commission in various states.

A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V M Pancholi, who reserved the batch of pleas on January 29, will pronounce the verdict on Wednesday, May 27.

The court will decide whether the Election Commission has the power to conduct SIR in its present form under Article 326 of the Constitution, the Representation of the People Act, 1950, and the related rules.

The batch of petitions -- which were filed in June last year following the ECI's decision to conduct SIR in Bihar and other states -- includes the ones filed by; NGOs -- The Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), political activist Yogendra Yadav, MPs Mahua Moitra, Manoj Jha, K C Venugopal and, Supriya Sule and Mujahid Alam, National Federation for Indian Women (NFIW), and others.

The EC had in June, 2025 decided to conduct the SIR in Bihar and many other states.

With this, a batch of pleas were filed before the top court challenging the constitutional validity of the entire exercise.

The petitioners claimed the exercise was in violation of Articles 14, 19, 21, 325, 326 of the Constitution of India and provisions of Representation of People (RP) Act, 1950 and Registration of Electors Rules, 1960.

Subsequently, the court also impleaded all the political parties in the matter.