In the run-up to the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections, a large-scale voter deletion scam rocked the Aland constituency, with investigators now uncovering a cash-for-deletion racket that may have influenced the electoral roll. According to the Karnataka Police Special Investigation Team (SIT), each fraudulent application submitted to the Election Commission (EC) for voter removal fetched a payment of Rs 80 to the operators involved.

Between December 2022 and February 2023, a staggering 6,018 such applications were filed in Aland, amounting to Rs 4.8 lakh in total payouts. The SIT’s findings are part of an ongoing probe into what is now being seen as one of the more serious voter list manipulation cases in the state.

The voter deletion controversy gained national attention after Congress

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