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    After the Association for Democratic Reforms, multiple petition filed by different parties, including NGO People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), TMC MP Mahua Moitra and RJD, have approached Supreme Court against Election Commission‘s special intensive revision (SIR) of Bihar’s electoral rolls and told the court that the exercise is illegal and calculated to disenfranchise the state’s mobile migrant population which works across India but returns home to exercise their democratic right to vote. The parties are likely to mention the case before SC on Monday for urgent hearing. Moitra, in her petition, submitted that the impugned order unlawfully shifted the burden of proving eligibility from the State to the individual elector and arbitrarily excludes commonly accepted identity documents such as Aadhaar and ration cards. Shifting of the burden of voter authentication onto the citizens, and to view every citizen with suspicion until proven otherwise, is a breach of the constitutional spirit, and also is in direct contravention of the statutory scheme to which EC is bound, she said. PUCL, which moved SC through advocate Talha Abdul Rahman, submitted that the timing of the decision appears “deliberately to disenfranchise Bihar’s mobile workforce during crucial electoral periods”.





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