Taking note of the ‘bogus voters’ in Khaniyar assembly segment in Kashmir during recently held elections, Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar has directed the police to initiate investigation into the matter.
Reports informed that with the ‘ample proof and evidence’, the PDP’s contesting candidate from Khaniyar Mohammad Khurshid Alam submitted petition before the CJM, submitting in his prayers that the bogus voters were used to cast their votes during the recently held polls.
Alam according to reports has also mentioned that he several times via the written pleas had asked the concerned authorities including the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Srinagar to delete the wrong entries in the voting list.
While taking note of the petition, the CJM directed SHO Khaniyar to register case against all those involved into the issue including the electoral officer.
Pertinently the reports came to fore that in Khaniyar 825 voters are either non-existent or have appeared in the list at more than one place. Around 300 voters are registered in the revised voter list at more than one place interestingly at separate polling stations.
There are at least 1200 fake entries in the revised voter list of Khanyar constituency. A resident of a particular locality also exists on another voter list of a different locality falling under the jurisdiction of another polling station. The Khanyar seat was retained by National Conference’s Ali Mohammad Sagar by a narrow margin.
Each allegedly bogus voter is carrying more than one photo identity card issued by the electoral officers. The alleged scandal came to the fore when a particular political party was scrutinizing the voter list to file the objections. However, they were taken by surprise on noticing that hundreds of voters were registered in more than one voter list. Reports also informed that a woman registered in one photo-generated voter list also exists figures in another list with same name and photo identity.
Number of such double entries in the electoral roll of Khanyar constituency runs in hundreds.
Then was another category of allegedly bogus voters. There are around 800 such voters who could not be traced in Khanyar constituency. These are actually non-existent voters. According to some people, this was being allegedly done by some people in the government for certain considerations.
