Karnataka vote chori – SIT identified six suspects who charged money for deleting votes in Aland

The SIT probing the alleged ‘ vote chor i’ (vote theft) in Aland assembly segment in 2023 assembly elections in Karnataka has discovered that “attempts” were made to delete names from the voters list and zeroed in on at least six suspects involved in the scam.Top sources in the Criminal Investigation Department told PTI that for every successfully deleted name, the suspects were paid Rs 80.

There were requests to delete 6,994 names, but barring a few genuine cases, other requests were bogus.Aland is in Kalaburagi in North Karnataka, the home district of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior Congress MLA B R Patil represents the assembly seat.It was Patil and Kharge’s son Priyank Kharge, a minister and Chittapur MLA, who unearthed the alleged vote deletion attempts and alert