Kolkata: The Election Commission (EC) of India has placed 2,208 booths in West Bengal under special review after reports indicated that all distributed enumeration forms were returned filled out, showing no dead, duplicate, or untraceable voters.

South 24 Parganas leads with 760 such booths, followed by Purulia (228), Murshidabad (226), Howrah (94) and Kolkata (1). West Bengal currently has over 78,000 booths across 294 assembly constituencies.

An EC source said, “We have asked for detailed reports from officials of these districts. Apart from the absence of dead voters, these booths do not have any duplicate or untraceable voters. These booths are under the scanner.”

As of Monday afternoon, the 27th day of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls launched on November

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