Karnataka SIT says Rs 80 paid for every fraudulent voter deletion application in Aland; over 6,000 such requests made

The Karnataka Police SIT, probing the case of voter list irregularities of the Aland seat, found that a data centre operator was paid Rs 80 for each fraudulent voter deletion. The Aland voter list irregularities were one of the cases brought up by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as part of his “vote chori” allegations against the BJP.

Voter deletion applications and data centre

The SIT also mentioned that a total of 6,018 such applications to delete voters’ names were made between December 2022 and February 2023 in the seat, working out to a total payment of Rs 4.8 lakh. Last week, the SIT raided properties linked to BJP leader Subhash Guttedar, who lost from Aland in 2023 to the Congress’s B R Patil, as part of the probe.

The SIT took over the investigation into the Alnad case on Sept