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Santosh Kumar Nayak, the Assistant Electoral Registration Officer in Dhamnagar, Odisha, used Booth Level Officer credentials to file over 3,000 Form 7 applications that deleted mainly Muslim voters, constituting a targeted voter‑suppression scheme.Representative image · Pexels

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Santosh Kumar Nayak, the Assistant Electoral Registration Officer in Dhamnagar, Odisha, used Booth Level Officer credentials to file over 3,000 Form 7 applications that deleted mainly Muslim voters, constituting a targeted voter‑suppression scheme.

Reported by Varun Krishnan (Senior Writer) · Indian Express - Political Pulse ·