On December 4, 2025, the Supreme Court will continue hearing multiple petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and other states. During the last hearing on December 2, petitioners argued that the Election Commission has become a “despot” by turning mere doubts about voter roll purity into a huge national exercise. Advocate Prashant Bhushan questioned why the voter lists are not available in a machine-readable format. The Election Commission countered these claims with affidavits stating that 95.65% of voters in Tamil Nadu and 99.77% in West Bengal have received pre-filled enumeration forms. The ECI emphasized it has already collected back 58.7% of these forms and digitized the data, denying accusations of mass voter disenfranchisement.