Yogendra Yadav shows up in Supreme Court with 2 voters declared dead by ECI after Bihar SIR

Psephologist Yogendra Yadav today brought to the Supreme Court two people who have been declared dead in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bihar's electoral roll.

He told a Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi that the names of these two people do not appear in the electoral rolls because they have been declared dead.

"Please see them. These are declared as dead. They don't appear. But they are alive...see them," Yadav told the Court.

Senior Advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, appearing for the ECI, termed the submission a "drama".

Justice Bagchi said that this may have been an inadvertent error.

"May have been an inadvertent error. Can be corrected. But your points are well taken," the judge said.

Yadav made the submission while the Bench was hearing a batch of petitions challenging the SIR process underway in Bihar. He is one of the petitioners in the case.

He told the Court that the SIR exercise is the first in the history of India where revision has taken place with zero additions to the electoral roll.

"They [ECI] went across the State and did not find a single addition...We are witnessing the largest exercise of disenfranchisement in the history of the world. 65 lakh names deleted. Never in the history of India has it happened. The figure is bound to cross 1 crore," he said.

The Court thanked Yadav for his analysis of the process. The hearing of the case will continue on Wednesday.

Read detailed arguments made during today's hearing here.