“After these 24.21 lakh voters are called for hearing and verification, more voters with logical discrepancies may be called,” a commission source said. He said that sets of six or more among them had linked themselves to the same parent on the previous SIR list. “This was highly suspicious as so many people (on the previous SIR list) could not have had six or more children at the age they were in during 2002. A senior poll panel official said the hearings for the 32 lakh “unmapped” voters would continue till January 10 or so. Another 3.29 lakh voters have linked themselves to grandparents less than 40 years older than them, which too the poll panel finds suspicious, sources said.

Source: The Telegraph January 03, 2026 01:47 UTC