By PTI
Belagavi Market police registered an FIR on Sept 30 against BJP leader Dr Ravi Patil and 20 to 25 others for allegedly attempting to delete 198 voters’ names from electoral rolls using Form 7 applications containing forged documents and false information.
According to the complaint, the accused allegedly targeted Muslim voters whose names were legally included in the rolls at polling booths 195 and 196 in Veerabhadra Nagar on September 22.
Also, at least two FIRs have been registered against the “SIR irregularities”, including one in Mysuru against local BJP leaders and others with a complainant alleging “conspiracy” to get his, his family’s and other members of the “Muslim community’s votes deleted during the SIR process and thereby, hurting the religious sentiments of the community and creating disturbance in society”.
Karnataka chief minister D K Shivakumar, along with his cabinet colleagues and MLAs, staged a sit-in outside Chief Electoral Officer V Anbukkumar’s office on Thursday, demanding an FIR over alleged “electoral fraud” during the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls.
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