ADR, Yogendra Yadav, Mahua Moitra challenge Bihar SIR in Supreme Court
Association for Democratic Reforms, Yogendra Singh Yadav, Manoj Jha, Mahua Moitra and the People's Union for Civil Liberties petitioned the Supreme Court within days of the Commission's 24 June 2025 order starting a Special Intensive Revision of Bihar's electoral rolls, arguing the exercise risked mass, arbitrary disenfranchisement. The Court heard the case on an expedited basis through July 2025 to January 2026 and reserved judgment on 29 January 2026, delivering a unanimous verdict on 27 May 2026 that upheld the SIR and traced the Commission's power to it to Section 21(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, while issuing directions on Aadhaar as an identity document, disclosure of 'logical discrepancy' lists and other procedural safeguards.
Case-level entry only. The Aadhaar direction, the 29 Jan 2026 logical-discrepancy order and the 27 May 2026 judgment are already recorded as separate order entries in sir-rules.json: sir-rules-sc-suggests-aadhaar-epic-ration (2025-07-10), sir-rules-sc-deleted-list-aadhaar-claims (2025-08-14), sir-rules-sc-parties-aadhaar-claims (2025-08-22), sir-rules-claims-after-deadline (2025-09-01), sir-rules-aadhaar-12th-document (2025-09-09), sir-rules-sc-logical-discrepancy-hearing (2026-01-29), sir-rules-sc-sir-judgment (2026-05-27), and numbers-bihar-sc-366-lakh-2025-10-07. Not duplicated here. scobserver's own hearing table misdates two entries (it lists '29 January 2025' and '8 September 2025' where context makes clear it means 2026 and closer to the recorded 2025-09-09/2025-09-01 Aadhaar orders); dates used here follow the already-verified entries in sir-rules.json rather than scobserver's table.
- TIER 2 · RESEARCH/FILINGChallenge to the ECI's revision of electoral rolls in Bihar (SIR): Association for Democratic Reforms v Election Commission of IndiaSupreme Court Observer2026-05-27