India, Sept. 18 -- The Chief Election Officer (CEO) of Karnataka responded to allegations of voter deletions made by Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, saying that all the incorrect applications were rejected, and an FIR was filed in the matter in 2023.

According to the statement by the Karnataka CEO, the ERO in Aland received 6,018 Form 7 applications during December 2022, which were submitted online using various apps such as NVSP, VHA, and GARUDA. Suspecting the genuineness of such a large number of applications submitted online for the deletion of electors' names in the Aland assembly constituency, each application was verified.

"Only 24 applications were found to be genuine, and another 5,994 were found to...