The Supreme Court on Tuesday (October 7, 2025) reminded the Election Commission of India that “the degree of transparency and access to information form the hallmarks of an open democracy”. It also questioned the top poll body about the individual details of voters added to the final list of voters in Bihar after the special intensive revision (SIR) of the State’s electoral roll.Over 21.5 lakh voters have been added in the final roll, and 3.66 lakh removed.Bihar SIR hearing Updates on October 7, 2025“There is a confusion about the names added on in the final list… What is the identity of the people added on? Is it an add-on of names taken from the 65 lakh voters deleted in the draft roll or are they new and independent names? The final list shows an appreciation of the number of voters… This exercise we want you to do is in aid of the electoral process, to maintain intact the faith in the electoral process,” Justice Joymalya Bagchi, who was part of the Bench headed by Justice Surya Kant, asked the Election Commission (EC).The final list shows that there are 7.42 eligible voters in the State. This was higher than the 7.24 crore voters listed in the draft electoral roll published after the first phase of the SIR, which had seen the removal of 65 lakh names, given that Bihar had 7.89 crore voters on June 24, the date of notification of the SIR exercise.