Making the first arrest in its probe into irregular applications for deletion of names from the voter list of Karnataka’s Aland Assembly constituency ahead of the 2023 state polls, the Special Investigation Team of the Karnataka CID has arrested a 27-year-old man from West Bengal.

Aland in Kalaburagi district was one of the two constituencies mentioned by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at a September 18 press conference where he alleged electoral fraud and “vote chori” .

Bapi Adya, who once ran a mobile repair shop in his hometown, was arrested Wednesday night from the Ghuguragachhi-Hanskhali region of Nadia district of West Bengal and produced in a local court in Bengaluru Thursday.

In a remand application seeking Adya’s custody for 14 days, the SIT said he was arrested around 10

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