A day after mid-day reported that the state election office has violated rules by employing class four employees to work on making electoral rolls, Mumbai Congress president Sanjay Nirupam has alleged that the city has about nine lakh bogus voters registered. Nirupam produced evidence – copies of the rolls of various constituencies in which serious discrepancies were found. He said these rolls would facilitate bogus voters to cast their votes multiple times, and alleged that it was the work of a well-oiled mafia that worked in tandem with the officials and political parties.

The discrepancies
According to the documents, the irregularities were found in Magathane and Dindoshi Assembly constituencies. Some show different names for different persons, different addresses for the same persons, and different booth numbers for the same persons. In some cases, the pictures of the voters are same but other details vary. In other cases, the pictures don't match the details. In an alarming find, a voter in one constituency is seen given 13 names, 13 different ages and 13 different addresses. The picture of the voter is the same. In another case, one person has got 11 different names, 11 different ages, and 11 different addresses and booths in the same Assembly segments. Similar irregularities are found in other segments as well.