Kolkata: With the focus on minute progeny mapping being initiated as directed by the Election Commission of India last week, the ECI officials have already identified doubtful data for around 30 lakh voters.

The names of all these 30 lakh odd voters, in whose cases doubtful data has been noticed by the ECI, were not in the voters’ list for 2002. These voters applied for registration in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by virtue of their parents’ names in the 2002 list.

“Progeny” mapping is done to detect whether the names of the parents of a voter concerned in the current voters’ list match the list of 2002, the last time when the SIR was conducted in West Bengal.

An insider from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that the majority of the cas

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