Overview
- Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, recorded a first-of-its-kind FIR for allegedly forged and false SIR forms filed for two men living abroad, with police invoking BNS provisions and Section 31 of the Representation of the People Act after a BLO flagged discrepancies during digitisation.
- Rajasthan’s Chief Electoral Officer said the state achieved 100% digitisation and 97% elector mapping ahead of schedule, with draft rolls due on December 16, a claims window through January 15, and final rolls slated for February 14.
- Uttar Pradesh officials reported distribution of about 99.93% of enumeration forms and digitisation of roughly 94.04%, with work completed in 34 of 403 constituencies and an extended deadline set for December 11.
- UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath instructed BJP cadres to prioritise voter verification and remove ineligible entries, assigning senior leaders district oversight as both BJP and Samajwadi Party mobilised booth networks and BLAs.
- Following earlier lapses in Bihar that drew Supreme Court-mandated transparency steps, opposition leaders and former election administrators say the SIR’s tight timelines and documentation demands risk mistakes and wrongful deletions, especially for vulnerable groups.