Case against BJP worker over form 7 to get voters deleted in Malleswaram

BENGALURU: Bengaluru police have registered an FIR following allegations of irregularities related to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the Malleswaram Assembly constituency, officials said on Sunday.The FIR was registered against G S Vasanthalakshmi – believed to be associated with the BJP – on October 2 based on a complaint from Anoop Iyengar, a Congress leader.Police have invoked BNS sections 319(2) (cheating by personation), 336(2) (forgery), 340(2) (forged document or electronic record and using it as genuine), 61(2)(b) (criminal conspiracy) and 217(b) (false information, with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to injury of another person).Iyengar told the police that at polling stations in Ward 64, he was informed that Form 7 applications were submitted showing voters as persons who had shifted residence or were otherwise ineligible to be on the electoral rolls. This was an attempt to get their names deleted from the electoral rolls, he stated, accused Vasanthalakshmi of being involved.’A legal provision…’: Karnataka BJP urges police chief to stop booking party workers over submission of Form 7According to the FIR, 778 voter entries were spread across different polling stations: 122 applications in polling station 157, 233 in polling station 155, 28 in 156, five in 158, 47 in 154, 171 in 205, 68 in 203 and 104 applications in polling station 153.Anyone can file Form 7 to get names deleted from the electoral rolls during the SIR.

Source: Deccan Herald