The Election Commission of India (ECI) has ordered strict scrutiny of booths where all enumeration forms, or only one to 10 forms each, were returned. This implies that the number of deceased, absent or shifted voters reported from these booths is either nil or negligible, according to the Commission.

Since the last Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal took place in 2002, having no deceased voters across a period of 23 years is “almost impossible”, the Commission said. The data, therefore, is “not acceptable”, officials said.

According to ECI sources, out of the state’s 7.66 crore voters, 96.37% of enumeration forms have already been digitised.

A senior ECI official said, “Wherever questions are raised, we will scrutinise the detailed information provided in the forms. It

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