The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged “vote theft” in Aland constituency in the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections has filed a chargesheet against seven people, including a former BJP MLA and his son.

The case relates to alleged attempts to delete as many as 5,994 names from the voters’ list ahead of the elections.

The chargesheet, filed before the First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in Bengaluru, comprises over 22,000 pages explaining in detail the modus operandi of the accused, reports said.

Subhash Guttedar, a four-time former MLA from Aland, his son Harshanand Guttedar, his personal secretary, Tipperudra, three Kalaburagi-based data centre operators—Akram Pasha, Mukaram Pasha and Mohammed Ashfaq—and Bapi Adya from West Bengal are the seven people named i

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