BENGALURU: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Karnataka Police has named seven individuals, including former BJP MLA Subhash Guttedar, in a chargesheet filed on Friday in connection with the so-called ‘vote chori’ case. The case relates to allegations that 5,994 voters in the Aland assembly constituency were illegally targeted for deletion between 2022 and 2023. Those named in the 22,000-page chargesheet include Subhash Guttedar, a four-time MLA from Aland; his son Harshanand Guttedar; his personal secretary Tipperudra; three operators of a data centre in Kalaburagi—Akram Pasha, Mukaram Pasha, and Mohammed Ashfaq; and a youth from West Bengal, Bapi Adya, who allegedly provided an ‘OTP bypass’ facility to access the Election Commission’s online services. The Case In

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