The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday informed the Telangana High Court that it is examining allegations of nearly 12,000 illegal bulk additions and fraudulent voter entries to the electoral rolls for the forthcoming Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency by-election. Further, the Commission stated to a Division Bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G M Mohiuddin that a report has been sought from the District Election Officer (DEO) regarding the matter.

The court was addressing a lunch motion petition filed by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) candidate for Jubilee Hills, Maganti Sunitha Gopinath, and BRS working president K T Rama Rao.

The BRS leaders sought a judicial directive to call for an inquiry into their representations, which were submitted to the Telanga

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