India, Dec. 18 -- More than a million voters in West Bengal were born when their parents were less than 15 years of age, data shared by the Election Commission has revealed.

While at least 10,76,981 voters have been identified whose age difference with their parents is less than 15 years, there is another set of 3,11,811 voters who were born when their grandparents were less than 40 years of age.

Neither is biological impossible -- but the numbers look off.

A senior official of the poll panel who asked not to be named said that there are around 16.3 million voters who have "logical discrepancies" in their enumeration forms. They have been divided into seven categories : those who have been mapped with more than six persons in the proge...