CB begins probe into voters’ list ‘leak’
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The Crime Branch (CB) has opened an investigation on a criticism filed by the workplace of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Kerala, that electoral roll information was illegally faraway from a laptop computer within the CEO’s workplace in Thiruvananthapuram.
The criticism, which seeks a probe into the opportunity of a conspiracy behind the incident, was filed by Joint Chief Electoral Officer Krishnadasan P. two days in the past. The Crime Branch registered the FIR on Friday.
The voters’ list ready for the Assembly polls in Kerala had been the topic of a raging controversy forward of the April 6 elections. Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala, who was Leader of Opposition on the time, had levelled the allegation, with entries from the list as ‘proof’, that greater than 4 lakh double entries had crept into the rolls.
The Election Commission had later knowledgeable the Kerala High Court that it might detect solely 38,586 demographically related entries (DSEs) and that adequate safeguards have been in place to forestall bogus voting.
CEO Teeka Ram Meena’s workplace has lodged the criticism now following a course from the Election Commission of India (ECI).
The fee is known to have issued the course on the premise of a report submitted by C-DAC which appeared into the purported leak. The C-DAC report had talked about the suspicion that the information could have been faraway from the tools utilized by Keltron employees deputed to the CEO’s workplace, sources mentioned.
Keltron is the State-level company aiding information administration and safety for the fee, underneath the supervision of C-DAC on the CEO’s workplace. Further, Mr. Meena’s workplace has additionally determined to not renew the contract with Keltron as per a course from the fee. The contract had ended on June 30.
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