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NEW DELHI: Election Commission had provided constabulary with elaborate accusation connected Aland voter-deletion lawsuit 2 years ago, including the objector's name, EPIC number, mobile fig utilized for login, Form 7 notation number, interaction fig fixed for processing, IP address, applicant's location, and dates of signifier submission and idiosyncratic creation."Basically, the accusation Rahul has present asked EC to stock was already fixed by Karnataka CEO to authorities CID 2 years earlier," an EC authoritative said, contrasting this with Rahul's refusal to taxable a signed affidavit to backmost claims of voter-roll irregularities successful Mahadevapura, for which CEC Gyanesh Kumar had acceptable a akin deadline.Regarding Rahul's complaint of fake voters successful Maharashtra's Rajoura constituency, the electoral registration serviceman said that betwixt Oct 1 and 17, 2024, the constituency received 7,592 applications for caller enrolment.
"On scrutiny by booth-level officers, 6,861 applications were recovered invalid owed to fictitious identities, faulty photos, documents oregon addresses, and were rejected," the ERO said. He added nary fake names were added to the rolls and that a broad probe and transgression enactment nether the Representation of the People Act, 1950, and the IT Act, 2000, were ordered aft the irregularities surfaced.Soon aft Rahul's PowerPoint presentation, EC dismissed his claims connected Aland arsenic "incorrect and baseless," stressing that nary voter's sanction tin beryllium deleted online by the nationalist "as misconceived by Rahul Gandhi". It said immoderate affected elector is fixed a accidental to beryllium heard earlier the electoral registration serviceman decides connected deletion.
"In 2023, definite unsuccessful attempts were made for deletion of electors successful Aland AC and an FIR was filed by the canvass sheet itself to probe the matter," an EC spokesperson said, noting that BJP's Subash Guttedar won the Aland spot successful 2018 and Congress's B R Patil successful 2023.Karnataka CEO said 6,018 Form 7 applications seeking deletions were submitted online successful Dec 2022 done the nationalist voters' work portal, the elector helpline app and Garuda app. Given the unusually precocious number, each exertion was verified; lone 24 were genuine portion 5,994 were rejected, preventing wrongful deletions. Based connected these findings, an FIR was lodged connected Feb 21, 2023. The CEO said each information was handed to Kalaburagi SP.
