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Uttar Pradesh: ECI releases final electoral roll after 5-month-long SIR exercise, removes names of over 2 crore ineligible voters

OpIndia Staff -
The second phase of Uttar Pradesh’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) concluded with 2.05 crore names removed from the electoral roll.
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Islamists and liberals play victim about ‘Muslim names’ being deleted from electoral rolls: How illegal migration is the highest in Bengal, and how their...

Shriti Sagar -
Initially, the EC deleted 58.25 lakh voters who were found to be deceased, absent, shifted, or had duplicate entries in the draft rolls published last December.
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Women positioned at the front, provocative announcements from local mosque, switched off CCTV: What NIA’s preliminary inquiry report in Malda violence case reveals

Shraddha Pandey -
The probe agency’s preliminary findings in the case indicate a simultaneous emergence of demonstration and road blockades across multiple locations, pointing to prior planning and strategic execution by an organised network rather than a ‘protest’ driven by organic anger over SIR.
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West Bengal: Around 91 lakh voters removed after SIR, ECI to release final rolls; Murshidabad records highest deletion

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Earlier draft and final lists had already removed over 63 lakh names from electoral rolls. Judicial scrutiny added another 27 lakh deletions. North 24 Parganas recorded second highest removals, while elections will be held on 23rd and 29th April. Results on 4th May.
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“Motivated, pre-planned, and deeply instigating”: SC slams Bengal bureaucracy, hands gherao of judicial officials in Malda probe to NIA 

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"We direct NIA to take over investigation. The investigation reports shall be filed before NIA Court at Kolkata," the SC order stated.
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As mob holds judicial officers hostage in Malda’s Kaliachak, read how Muslims resorted to anti-Hindu riots in 2016 at the same place over Kamlesh...

Divya Bharti -
The 2016 Malda riots saw a massive protest against Kamlesh Tiwari’s remarks turn into widespread violence.
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Days before the Malda violence, judicial officers had written to the District Magistrate, raising concerns over security arrangements: Read details

OpIndia Staff -
The officers also highlighted infrastructural flaws in the Kaliachak-II BDO office, including insufficient workspace and "lack of adequate and hygienic washroom facilities".
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CEC Gyanesh Kumar hands over Malda violence case to NIA: Here’s what SC observed, DM and Home Secretary didn’t reach scene, even food and...

Shraddha Pandey -
A Bench comprising CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipin Pancholi took sou motu cognisance of the Malda incident after being alerted by the Calcutta High Court CJI. The apex court came down heavily on the West Bengal government and the Malda district administration.
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Violence escalates in West Bengal’s Malda: Police attacked and vehicles set on fire while clearing highway as unrest spread over SIR protests

OpIndia Staff -
Violent protests erupted in Malda over voter list revision, leaving a police driver seriously injured after a vehicle was attacked.
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SC slams Mamata govt after mob gheraos judicial officers in Muslim-dominated Malda, calls West Bengal ‘most polarised State’

OpIndia Staff -
A Bench comprising Surya Kant, Joymalya Bagchi and Vipin Pancholi strongly criticised the Mamata government of West Bengal, saying there was a clear “abdication of duty” on its part.
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