The Supreme Court today reserved the decision on a batch of petitions challenging the legality of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls done by the Election Commission of India across several states. Simply put, the SIR is a process which aims to create electoral rolls from scratch. In the process, a comprehensive update and verification of the voters on the rolls is done by the ECI at grass-root level. Most of the petitions were filed in June last year following the ECI's decision to conduct SIR in Bihar. Over 13 petitioners, including NGOs, leaders from various political parties and individual activists, have filed pleas challenging the SIR process.