India, Aug. 20 -- A case has been registered against psephologist Sanjay Kumar by the district electoral officer (DEO) of Nashik in Maharashtra for allegedly misleading voters with wrong data on the Devlali assembly segment for the Lok Sabha and state elections held in 2024.

"It is requested to all citizens to verify the info only from (Election Commission of India website," the DEO posted on X. It was not immediately clear what charges have been leveled.

Sanjay Kumar, a professor at Delhi's Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), had on Tuesday apologised for his X post on the Maharashtra elections, which wrongly reported a considerable fall in voter numbers in two assembly seats compared to the Lok Sabha elections.

He sa...