{"id":286503,"date":"2018-05-09T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T07:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286503"},"modified":"2018-05-09T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T07:22:47","slug":"karnataka-polls-2018-ec-squad-seizes-9746-voter-ids-in-west-bengaluru-orders-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-polls-2018-ec-squad-seizes-9746-voter-ids-in-west-bengaluru-orders-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka polls 2018: EC squad seizes 9,746 voter IDs in west Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Election Commission\u2019s (EC) flying squad on 8 May has seized 9,746 voter ids and some business cards of sitting Congress MLA and party candidate Muniratna from a flat (that allegedly belongs to a former BJP corporator Manjula Nanjamari ) in Jalahalli, west Bengaluru, which falls under Rajarajeshwari Nagar assembly constituency.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWhatever we have counted so far are valid IDs and are about 10 to 15 years old. We\u2019ll check whether there are fake ones too,\u201d flying squad official said.<\/p>\n

Chief Election Officer Sanjiv Kumar holds a press conference late in the night on 8 May and confirmed \u201cThe cards were wrapped in small bundles of paper with some phone numbers and names written on it. They seem to be from some slums.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further said,\u201d We have filed an FIR on the matter. It is being investigated and monitored directly by the Election Commission. This is certainly a serious matter; we can\u2019t take a decision here. An appropriate decision will be taken in the next 24 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident was brought to light by a candidate contesting on a JD(S) ticket from the same constituency. He visited the same apartment during campaigning.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cFlat no. 115 at SLV Park View in Jalahalli looked like a mini-BBMP office. Apart from two aluminium boxes filled with ID cards, there were two printers and six laptops.\u201d<\/p>\n

Candidate even added that there could be possibility of 50,000 more fake voter ID cards and the list included the ID card of BBMP joint commissioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Election Commission\u2019s (EC) flying squad on 8 May has seized 9,746 voter ids and some business cards of sitting Congress MLA and party candidate Muniratna from a flat (that allegedly belongs to a former BJP corporator Manjula Nanjamari ) in Jalahalli, west Bengaluru, which falls under Rajarajeshwari Nagar assembly constituency. \u00a0\u201cWhatever we have counted so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":215273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39],"tags":[1358,1359,308,1360,1310,1361],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}