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On Wednesday July 9,2025 , a bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymala Bagchi also allowed petitions filed by social activists Arshad Ajmal and Rupesh Kumar. These have been added to the group of petitions to be heard on Thursday July 10, 2025 .
New Delhi : The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday July 10, 2025 the petitions filed by social activists Arshad Ajmal and Rupesh Kumar against the Election Commission’s process of voter list revision in Bihar. A bench of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Joymala Bagchi on Wednesday July 9, 2025 also allowed the petitions filed by Arshad Ajmal and Rupesh Kumar . These have been added to the group of petitions to be heard on Thursday.
The two activists said in their petition that the process undermines the principles of free and fair elections and representative democracy by imposing arbitrary, unfair and inconsistent documentation requirements relating to birth, residence and citizenship.
Several more petitions were also filed
Several new petitions, including a joint petition by leaders of opposition parties Congress, NCP (Sharad Pawar), Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray), Samajwadi Party, JMM, CPI and CPI (ML), were filed in the apex court against the Election Commission’s decision to conduct SIR before the elections in Bihar. Apart from separate petitions by RJD MP Manoj Jha and Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, Congress’ KC Venugopal, Sharad Pawar’s Supriya Sule from the NCP faction, D Raja from the Communist Party of India, Harinder Singh Malik from the Samajwadi Party, Arvind Sawant from Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray), Sarfaraz Ahmed from Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and Dipankar Bhattacharya of CPI (ML) have jointly moved the Supreme Court.
