Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (MS)
Bengaluru, May 10: Police who confiscated 9746 original voter ID cards from a flat in Jalahalli of the city, which falls under the assembly constituency of Rajarajeshwari Nagar, are suspecting that these cards might have been taken from the respective voters as collateral security against voting for a particular political party.
On Wednesday, May 9, the police tried to find out the actual owners of these cards.
The cops are also suspecting that these cards might have been taken in exchange for the freebies that are distributed to these voters with the intention of returning the same to the original holders after the voting is over. However, it is said that the inquiries have not led the cops to any concrete conclusion of this whole saga.
The police have found during the raid that the cards are stacked in bundles of 200. Each bundle had a name and telephone number on it. Now the suspicion of the cops is that these individual bundles contain the cards of those people who are tracked by the person, whose name and phone number appears on the top of the bundle. Probably he is the person who is responsible to ensure that these cardholders vote for a specific party.
Police are trying to contact the cardholders as well as the people whose names appear on the bundle to know the exact modus operandi of this plan. It is also suspected that quite a large number of bundles might have been taken already from the flat by certain individuals.
The inquiry is underway. However, it is known through sources that this might take some time as the police have to search through a large number of counterfoils said to be placed in two big steel boxes. Prima facie, it is noticed that these counterfoils appear the same as the acknowledgement slips of Form-6 that is used for adding names to the list of the electorate.
As per the information given by the election commission on Tuesday, May 8, over one lac counterfoils were seized during the operation.