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The incidents had triggered concerns over possible misuse of Form 7, which is used to seek deletion of a name from the electoral roll or object to an existing entry. Congress had complained to the CEO over around 30 applications in Musheerabad, while another set of pre-printed forms surfaced in Goshamahal. “If Form 7 is properly filled and the grounds are correct, it will be considered. He said booth-level agents could submit up to 30 forms, but each application would have to be duly filled and would be independently scrutinised before any action was taken. The CEO said that of about 92.8 lakh notices issued in cases involving anomalies and unmapped electors during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), around 62 lakh electors had so far been found eligible. Officials still had time till Nov 5 to complete the exercise, he said. “In Musheerabad, there were hardly around 30 forms. He said apprehensions had grown against the backdrop of reports of thousands of Form 7 applications being submitted in Karnataka, but the cases from Hyderabad were on a much smaller scale.
Sudarshan Reddy said both instances were examined and the forms did not meet the prescribed requirements. Otherwise, it will be rejected,” he said. In Goshamahal too, only a few such forms surfaced and they were not accepted,” Karnan said. Karnan said officials were verifying unmapped electors against earlier electoral records and asking for documents wherever required. Electoral Registration Officers, he said, would examine the indicative documents.
They were semi-filled, without proper applicant details, and were rejected.