Synopsis: Briefing the media, the police said that between 9 December 2022 and 20 February 2023, attempts were made to remove names from voters’ list without the knowledge of the original voters across the 256 polling stations in the Aland Assembly constituency.

The alleged vote ‘ chori ‘ in Karnataka’s Aland that shook the nation is now once more in the news with the arrest of former MLA and BJP leader Subhash Guttedar, his son Harshanand Guttedar, and four others.

In a voluminous chargesheet, the Special Investigation Team (SIT), constituted to probe the case in September, alleged that the former MLA had paid money to a call-centre owner in Aland to delete 5,994 votes from the electoral rolls.

Responding to the arrests, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar said the election fraud in

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