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There was a stir in the administrative and political circles of Jharkhand when a very shocking case came to light during the ongoing Special Intensive Review (SIR) campaign in the state. Under this special campaign being run by the Election Commission to make the voter lists completely error-free and transparent, when the documents were checked in Jamshedpur, the names of three foreign nationals were found to be registered in the voter list. Initial investigation and official confirmation by the passport office made it clear that these three persons were citizens of Afghanistan, who had quietly managed to get their names included in the Indian voter list. After this serious security lapse and fraud came to light, the District Administration and Election Commission came into action, and immediately removed the names of these three from the voter list and initiated strict legal action against them. This incident has raised a big question mark not only at the local level but also on the election security system of the entire state as to how the foreign citizens broke the security loop and became a part of the voter list.
This is how the whole secret of fraud was revealed at booth number 286 of Jamshedpur East Assembly constituency.
This entire sensational case is of Jamshedpur East assembly constituency under the industrial city of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, where the process of SIR was being completed as per the instructions of the Election Commission. Meanwhile, when the voter list and documents of booth number 191 or polling station number 286 (Hindustani Sangh Madhya Vidyalaya, Golmuri) were being matched, the officials became suspicious about some records. In this list, names of three persons named Asil Khan, Mohammad Aslam and Mohammad Ibrahim were found recorded at serial numbers 30, 31 and 33 respectively. All three had completed their enumeration process like ordinary citizens and their names were also included in the recently published draft voter list. But when the documents given by them were thoroughly scrutinized at the administrative level and the figures did not match, the election officials issued notices to them and directed them to produce valid documents, to which they could not give any satisfactory answer.
Afghan citizenship confirmed in passport office investigation, names of all three out of voter list
When these three suspected persons failed to produce documents related to their Indian citizenship before the election officials, the district administration, realizing the seriousness of the matter, contacted the Regional Passport Office in Ranchi. When their documents and background were closely scrutinized by the passport office and intelligence agencies, irrefutable evidence was found that these three people are actually citizens of Afghanistan. Chief Electoral Officer K. While officially confirming this, Ravi Kumar said that the foreign citizenship of one of them has been completely certified while the involvement of the other two is also being thoroughly investigated. As soon as information was received about the names of foreign nationals being registered in the polling booth list, on the instructions of the District Election Officer, the names of these three were immediately removed from the voter list forever. This prompt action of the administration has made it clear that the Election Commission is in no mood to tolerate any kind of negligence or carelessness regarding the voter list.
High level investigation by local administration and intelligence agencies, the clampdown will also be tightened on asylum seekers.
After the revelation of this big fraud, now the local administration of Jharkhand and all the security agencies have started investigating how these Afghan citizens reached Jamshedpur and how they got Indian identity cards or other documents made. Preliminary investigation is revealing that some local help or some big fake network may be behind this entire process, which had illegally helped these foreign citizens to be included in the Indian voter list. The Chief Electoral Officer has clearly termed this as a serious criminal activity and said that strict legal and criminal action will be taken against anyone found involved in this matter. Not only this, a detailed investigation of the documents and activities of other family members of these three Afghan citizens has also been started, so that it can be found out where else the wires of this network are spread.
Jharkhand SIR campaign increased strictness, other suspicious entries are being searched across the state
After this sensational case that came to light in Jamshedpur, the monitoring and vigilance of the ongoing Special Intensive Review (SIR) campaign across Jharkhand has been increased manifold. The Election Commission is now expressing apprehension that there may be some foreigners or suspicious citizens in other districts or border areas of the state who have got their names registered in the voter list with the help of fake documents. After this incident, instructions have been given to all the district election officers to carry out physical and technical verification of the documents of every voter with utmost strictness. This step taken to maintain the sanctity and security of the democratic process proves how alert the Election Commission is regarding the internal security of the country. Taking lessons from incidents like Mandar and Jamshedpur, the administration is now investigating each and every application layer by layer so that such breaches related to national security can be completely prevented in future.