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Film actress ‘Sunny Leone’ (Photo) has appeared as Durgawati Singh in voters’ list of Balia district in Uttar Pradesh
A woman resembling Bollywood actress Sunny Leone appears in the revised voters’ list of Ballia district.
An elephant, a pigeon and a deer also made their way into the list, uploaded on the government website. After the mistake came into light, the electoral officer has ordered a probe into the matter.
The anomalies were detected in the revised voter’s list prepared on election Commission directives. Voter lists are being updated across Uttar Pradesh before 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Sunny Leone’s picture appears under the name of 51-year-old Durgawati Singh. The dicrepancies in the revised list were exposed after two pages of the same were leaked to the media.
An FIR has now been lodged with Ballia Kotwali police against the operator and administration has also launched a probe into the matter.
The anomalies were detected during the inspection of the revised voter lists that were uploaded on July 15. The election commission is carrying out the process of demarcation of voting booths and integration of voter lists, which are scheduled to be published on September 1.
Additional District Magistrate Manoj Kumar Singhal told The Hindu as per initial probe, the anomaly was attributed to the mischief of a data operator, who changed the photos of at least four voters in a fit of revenge as he was “aggravated over being transferred” out of the constituency.
Case against data operator
UP Chief Election Officer L. Venkateshwarlu also said that as per the probe the data operator in the district, identified as Vishnu Dev Verma, had “deliberately tampered with the voter list” with the aim of “corrupting” it.
Mr. Verma was believed to be “disturbed” after he was transferred from Ballia constituency on charges of assaulting a lekhpal, said the UP CEO in a statement.