New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) on a plea alleging presence of large number of bogus voters in various assembly constituencies of the national capital. A bench of Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva also issued notice to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Delhi seeking explanation over the allegation that there are many persons in the city who have numerous voter cards in their name but with different addresses.
The court sought reply from CEC and CEO before January 5 on a plea seeking direction to delete the name of bogus voters in different constituencies, including Mundka here which itself has over 41,000 such forged car holders. The petition was filed by Naresh Kumar, who unsuccessfully contested on a Congress ticket from Mundka in the 2014 Delhi Assembly polls.
He alleged that "in almost every constituency there are serious irregularities and a large number of fake and bogus names have been included intentionally and deliberately in the electoral roll..."
Advocate OP Saxena, appearing for Kumar argued that presence of large number of bogus voters will have an adverse effect on the poll process and outcome. He further said, "The voter identity cards are issued to a large number of bogus voters which may also be a security threat".
52-year-old Kumar also said he has given a representation and reminder to the Election Commission of India and Chief Election Officer of Delhi, who have not taken any action on the same. "Direct Election Commission to act on the representation of the petitioner dated December 22 and give him hearing so that he may demonstrate the large number of bogus voters in various constituencies of Delhi Assembly before finalising the draft electoral rolls for the ensuing Delhi Elections," the plea said.
The petitioner further alleged that same photographs appear at number of places repeatedly. "It has also been brought to our notice that in the electoral roll there are instances of voters registered at addresses of empty plots in Delhi/New Delhi depicting them as residential address," the counsel for Kumar submitted.
The petition said the non-action of respondents on the representation of the petitioner in violation of Article 14 of the Constitution of India. The petition said there are "as many as 37,387 voters in Mundka constituency, whose fathers names are matching". In Vikaspuri constituency, there are about "24,625 case where the voter's name and name of the father are matching".
Rithala is believed to have as many 23,680 such cases, the plea has alleged.
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