THE BID to fraudulently delete names from voters’ lists ahead of the 2023 Karnataka Assembly polls may not have been restricted to Aland constituency. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the state police investigating the case has found that a data centre used to illegally make online applications for deletion of names may have been used to also “manipulate” voters’ lists in at least two other seats falling in Kalaburagi district.

Sources said that it were primarily BJP leaders in Kalaburagi region who approached the data centre for its services. And that “an agreement was signed for changes to voter lists on behalf of a candidate from another constituency in the Kalaburagi region with the data centre”.

As per an official, “In one constituency (of Gulbarga city) as many as 35,000 v

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