Delhi: Mustafabad poll official files complaint seeking FIR against booth agent for false Form 7s
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The electoral registration officer in northeastern Delhi’s Mustafabad Assembly constituency on Friday registered a police complaint seeking a first information report against a booth level agent for filling allegedly false Form 7s seeking to delete voters living at their addresses, The Hindu reported.
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Form 7 is used to object to the inclusion of a name or seek the deletion of an existing name from the electoral roll.
Ajay Kumar, the district election officer in northeastern Delhi, told The Hindu that officials of the poll panel had verified the newspaper’s October 30 report and found that 36 of the 37 Form 7s that had been filed by the agent to be false.
The forms were filled as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
A complaint has been filed against the agent under the 1950 Representation of the People Act for making allegedly false declarations.
The newspaper had reported on October 30 that in polling part 129 of the constituency, voters listed in 28 Form 7s seeking their deletions were found to be living in the area.
The forms had been filled by a booth-level agent registered under the Bharatiya Janata Party, the newspaper had quoted the Election Commission’s records till October 28 as having shown.
The person had denied being an agent, filing the forms and being associated with the BJP,...