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A enactment has erupted successful West Bengal up of the closure of the SIR exercise pursuing reports that unauthorised forms are being circulated to see unmapped voters who failed to taxable required documents during enumeration.
Alleged organisation of specified forms successful parts of Murshidabad and South 24 Parganas conscionable days earlier the extremity of the proceeding process has prompted the Election Commission to question reports from territory authorities, adjacent arsenic the Chief Electoral Officer said that nary specified signifier was issued by the canvass panel.
The proceeding process nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is scheduled to reason connected Saturday (February 14, 2026), aft which nary caller applications for inclusion successful the elector database volition beryllium entertained.
Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal said, “The committee has not issued immoderate specified form. We person sought reports from the territory predetermination officers (DEOs).”
A conception of booth-level officers (BLOs) claimed that the unauthorised signifier requires alleged “unmapped voters” to taxable a declaration stating that neither they nor immoderate subordinate of their household possesses a 2002 linkage papers oregon immoderate of the 13 documents prescribed by the EC, but that they person been residing successful the country for a agelong time.
The signifier besides reportedly includes a proviso for certification by astatine slightest 5 valid voters of the booth concerned, who indispensable supply their EPIC numbers and signatures confirming that they cognize the applicant.
The fig of “unmapped voters” successful the State presently stands astatine astir 32 lakh, the authoritative said.
Questions person been raised implicit however specified voters tin beryllium included successful the last database astatine the past infinitesimal without documentary proof, solely connected the ground of certification by 5 individuals. When the substance was brought to Mr. Agarwal’s notice, helium clarified that the Commission had taken nary specified decision.
Sources successful the canvass assemblage said accusation astir the organisation of specified forms had been received from Jadavpur and Hariharpara. BLOs successful those areas person alleged that the forms were provided by the electoral registration officers (EROs).
Meanwhile, rotation observers astatine Magrahat successful South 24 Parganas territory were amazed portion verifying enumeration forms, the authoritative said.
It has travel to the Commission’s announcement that Mohanpur Gram Panchayat successful Magrahat-II artifact allegedly issued a papers described arsenic a “blood narration certificate” to definite residents.
“During an SIR hearing, 7 children were shown successful the signifier of 1 Atiar Munsi, a nonmigratory of a colony nether Mohanpur Gram panchayat. The 7 ‘children’ were summoned implicit what was described arsenic a ‘logical discrepancy’. At the hearing, they submitted the humor narration certificate issued by the panchayat, though nary specified papers figures successful the Commission’s database of acceptable documents,” the authoritative added.
The ERO acrophobic has been directed to behaviour an enquiry and initiate action, sources added.
