Krishnaraja police have taken up a case following a complaint by Ravishankar S
Mysuru: Mysuru city police have registered an FIR against unknown persons on charges of cheating, forgery and promoting enmity between different groups for submitting Form-7 applications, which are filed to delete voter entries in the electoral rolls. Krishnaraja police have taken up a case following a complaint by Ravishankar S, BLA-2 of Congress , under various provisions of BNS on Thursday. Ravishankar told TOI that 501 Form-7 applications were submitted by unknown persons without mentioning their names and details in the form. Election officers, however, are orally saying that those Form-7 applications lacking complete details will not be entertained, Ravishankar told TOI. Giving an example, Ravishankar claimed that Form 7 applications against three members of the BLA’s family, including his wife, mother and himself, have been submitted in booth 155 of ward 49 in the KR assembly segment. Ravishankar, in his complaint to KR police on Oct 1, stated that during the SIR process in the Krishnaraja assembly constituency, false information was entered in Form No. 7 without any valid supporting documents and submitted to the ECI, resulting in misuse of the process to remove names from the voters’ list. 7 between Sept 21 and 23 with malicious intent. The objection petitions submitted by these persons consisted of 198 Form-7 applications in Mysuru City Corporation zone office-1, 273 applications in zone office-2, and 30 in zone office-3, making a total of 501 applications, all filed against voters belonging to a single religion, namely Muslims. An officer confirmed to TOI that an FIR has been taken up based on a complaint by Ravishankar in connection with SIR’s Form-7 applications against unknown persons.
They have given reasons as permanently shifted and duplicate entry. Surprisingly, all these applications have been filed against voters from the Muslim community, he claimed. As a BLA, we collect updates about the revision of special intensive revision of electoral roll every day; based on the information from electoral registration officers and following complaints from voters, it has come to light, he stated. It was found that objection petitions were filed through Form No.
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