COIMBATORE: Residents of a locality in Tirupur Corporation submitted a petition to District Collector Manish S Narnaware on Friday, claiming that 320 votes had gone missing from the electoral roll of their neighbourhood.

Led by CPM party bearers, the residents of Thyagi Palanisamy Nagar handed over a petition alleging that the names of as many as 320 residents in ward 23, who had voted in several assembly, parliamentary, and local body polls, had gone missing from the current electoral rolls.

“We discovered the omission of our names during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) being carried out by the Election Commission of India (ECI),” claimed residents. They had already submitted a petition to the Revenue Divisional Officer on November 17.

“When sought for clarification, the official

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