India news: Supreme Court likely to hear Rahul Gandhi's Election Commision plea

Here are the latest developments from India on Thursday, October 15: Tired of missing our real-time updates? Click here to add us as a Preferred Source on Google. Then tap the "Star" or "Preferred" to keep DW News at the top of your feed. The Supreme Court is slated to hear a petition filed by India's main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and several other opposition lawmakers over a sweeping exercise which has so far purged over 130 million names from the country's electoral rolls. A list of cases to be taken up on Thursday by a bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kanta shows the petition named "Rahul Gandhi and others versus Election Commission of India and others.