The Supreme Court on Thursday (August 14, 2025) ordered the Election Commission of India to publish the list of approximately 65 lakh names excluded from the draft roll that was published on August 1, 2025, after a Special Intensive Revision exercise in Bihar.
In the interim order, the two-judge Bench comprising Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Surya Kant, ordered the poll body to publish a searchable list of the excluded names, booth-wise, along with the reasons for non-inclusion, in the district electoral officers’ websites by 5 p.m. on August 19, 2025.
