Overview
- Karnataka CID says its Aland investigation into 5,994 forged Form 7 voter-deletion applications has stalled because the Election Commission has not shared session-level data such as destination IPs and ports.
- Mallikarjun Kharge, Siddaramaiah and K. C. Venugopal allege the Commission is shielding those behind the fraud and demand the technical records needed to trace the submissions, with no immediate EC response reported.
- Congress MLA B. R. Patil, who first flagged the Aland case, is weighing a petition in the Supreme Court seeking directions to compel the Commission to provide the requested data.
- Former poll officials S. Y. Quraishi, O. P. Rawat and Ashok Lavasa criticise CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s affidavit ultimatum to Rahul Gandhi and say the Commission should quickly probe voter-roll doubts to preserve public trust.
- Karnataka IT minister Priyank Kharge has renewed a proposal for a court-monitored ethical hackathon and audit of EVMs as Congress broadens its ‘vote theft’ campaign, including a new newsletter and focus on alleged roll issues in Mahadevapura.