Karnataka Police Accuse Former MLA and Associates of Voter Deletion Scheme

As per thechargesheet submitted by theKarnataka Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT)in the Aland ‘vote chori’ case, the names that were sought to be deleted from the electoral list for the Assembly constituency in 2022-23 were of those seen to not likely vote for former MLA Subhash Guttedar. In the May 2023 Assembly elections, Guttedar contested from the BJP ticket, and lost. He has been the Aland MLA twice each from the BJP and Congress. The SIT filed its chargesheet in a magistrate’s court on Friday inBengaluru, naming Guttedar, his son Harshananda, his personal aide Tipperudra, as well as operators of a data centre – Akram Pasha, Aslam Pasha, and Md Ashfaq – and a West Bengal native, Bapi Adya, who are alleged to have helped file the illegal applications for deletion of voter names.