The Supreme Court on Monday expressed anguish over repeated filing of applications in the West Bengal special intensive revision (SIR) case even as it agreed to seek a report from the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court on allegations that appellate tribunals weren’t functioning.”Unfortunately, every day you people one after the other are (filing applications),” a Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said.The comments came after senior advocate Devadatt Kamat alleged during an urgent mentioning that appellate tribunals set up to adjudicate on appeals against exclusions of voters from electoral rolls during the exercise were not functioning despite the top court’s orders.Appellate tribunals were not allowing lawyers to represent parties and were not accepting physical applications, said Kamat, referring to newspaper reports.”There is a practical difficulty… appellate tribunals are not functioning. Lawyers are not being allowed. They only take Internet and computer-based applications. Citizens from thousands of kilometres are not allowed representation. This court’s orders are not being followed,” Kamat submitted.”We will get a report from the Chief Justice (of the Calcutta High Court) today itself,” the CJI told Kamat.Later, the Bench also refused to entertain another oral plea made by senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy against alleged addition of around 7 lakh new voters in poll-bound West Bengal using Form 6.”We can’t have a fishing inquiry,” the CJI said after Guruswamy mentioned that five to seven lakh voters have allegedly been added by the Election Commission (EC) in the state.The EC’s action was in violation of the top court’s April 13 order, which allowed addition of voters only if their appeals against exclusions were allowed by appellate tribunals, she said, adding that the addition of voters through Form 6 was not permissible after the cut-off date in terms of the April 13 order.”We will not entertain (it) like this… You challenge something, we will entertain,” the CJI told Guruswamy after she said the final electoral roll was not yet published and that only press reports were available.Earlier, the Supreme Court had ordered that voters excluded during the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls in West Bengal could be allowed to exercise their franchise in the Assembly elections if their appeals against deletion were allowed by appellate tribunals at least two days before the polling day.Exercising its powers under Article 142 of the Constitution, the Bench had directed the EC to issue a supplementary revised electoral roll to include such voters cleared by appellate tribunals to enable them to cast their votes in the election.Elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly will be held in two phases — on April 23 and April 29. Counting of votes will be done on May 4.The West Bengal SIR matter is listed for further hearing before the CJI-led Bench on April 24.