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HC to hear plea on bogus voters today

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI SEPT. 30 The Delhi High Court will take up tomorrow for consideration a petition by the former Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from the Delhi Cantonment Assembly Constituency, K.S. Tanwar, alleging irregularities in the preparation of electoral rolls.

Fixing the matter for Wednesday, Justice B.D. Ahmed said he would hear Mr. Tanwar's petition along with another petition raising similar issue in connection with a different Assembly constituency.

Mr. Tanwar, through his counsel, H.S. Phoolka, alleged that the names of as many as 12,000 bogus voters had been included in the voters' list of the constituency while the total number of voters had seen a drastic decrease from around one lakh in 1998 to about 70,000 in 2003. Besides, 3,000 duplicate voters were in the revised voters' list, Mr. Phoolka added.

He alleged that the Delhi police had arrested seven persons of Bulandshahar in Uttar Pradesh who had come to register their names in the constituency without having any genuine documents.

Mr. Tanwar alleged that thousands of people of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana had got themselves registered as voters. He also submitted a list having the names and the residential addresses of such voters to the High Court.

The petition said that the State Election Department had been sitting over 7,000 applications filed by potential voters for inclusion of their names in the electoral rolls. Similarly, about 6,000 objections for deletion of the names of alleged bogus voters are pending with the Election Department, Mr. Phoolka said.

However, counsel for the Election Department said that the pending applications for deletion of the names of alleged fake voters and inclusion of the names of potential voters were being disposed of.

On his submission, Justice Ahmed said that he would hear all the parties concerned and pronounce his judgment on Wednesday itself.

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