An Assistant Electoral Registration Officer in Dhamnagar, Odisha used Booth Level Officers' credentials to fraudulently submit hundreds of Form 7 applications that deleted mainly Muslim voters from the electoral roll

An Assistant Electoral Registration Officer in Dhamnagar, Odisha used Booth Level Officers' credentials to fraudulently submit hundreds of Form 7 applications that deleted mainly Muslim voters from the electoral roll. When Nirupama Tripathy, a Booth Level Officer (BLO) in Odisha's Dhamnagar Assembly seat, opened the app she was using for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise , she discovered at least 227 Form 7 applications seeking deletion of voters' names uploaded using her credentials without, she says, her knowledge. Tripathy wasn't the only one. Several BLOs in Dhamnagar's Notified Area Council – an Urban Local Body, alongside municipalities and municipal corporations – claimed multiple Form 7 applications similarly uploaded in their names. On September 4, 10 such BLOs registered a police com