On January 21, 2026, the Supreme Court resumed hearing petitions filed by Trinamool Congress leaders about serious errors in West Bengal's Special Intensive Revisions (SIR) of the electoral roll. These errors led to many voters being wrongly excluded from the list. The Election Commission (EC) submitted an affidavit stating some data in the roll were “scientifically impossible.” For example, some electors were recorded as having over 200 children, and others had 100 or more children, which the EC called "logical discrepancies." On January 19, the Court criticized the EC for causing “stress and strain” to ordinary citizens as 1.36 crore people, nearly 20% of the West Bengal population, received notices to clarify such discrepancies. The Supreme Court is also planning a separate hearing on whether the SIR exercise itself is constitutional in multiple states.