Overview
- Investigators searched multiple premises linked to Subhash Guttedar on October 17–18 in Kalaburagi, seizing electronic devices and election-related material.
- Officers say partially burnt documents suspected to be electoral records were found near his Aland residence, with bundles recovered from the Amarja backwaters.
- The SIT earlier identified a Kalaburagi call-centre operation that allegedly generated forged Form 7 deletion requests and questioned workers while collecting digital evidence.
- The Election Commission has rejected Rahul Gandhi’s assertion of mass online deletions even as it flagged anomalies in 2023 and initiated an FIR.
- Guttedar denies wrongdoing, calling the raids politically motivated and describing the burnt papers as household waste, with an official SIT statement awaited and forensic analysis pending.