India, Oct. 31 -- How did 127 voters in Navi Mumbai come to have the municipal commissioner's official residence listed as their registered address?

Amid growing scrutiny of electoral records in Navi Mumbai, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has alleged that these 127 voters are recorded in voting roll number 300 of the Belapur assembly constituency.

"Have EC officials lost their minds," said Gajanan Kale, Navi Mumbai city president of the MNS. Kale claimed the names registered at the address were not local residents. "They are of non-Marathi speaking persons from other states. The EC needs to find out how this happened and delete the names, if they do not exist."

Municipal Commissioner Kailas Shinde said he will raise the issue wit...