LUCKNOW, Dec. 6 -- In a first-of-its-kind action in Uttar Pradesh, an FIR was registered in Rampur district for providing false information during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls on Friday, local Rampur authorities confirmed on Saturday. The case was filed against a woman and her two sons after discrepancies surfaced in their SIR forms.

According to Rampur district magistrate AK Dwivedi, this instance was detected during the digitisation of SIR forms submitted in Assembly Constituency 37 (Rampur), Part 248. The BLO (booth level officer) found that the forms had been fraudulently filled for two voters-Aamir (voter number 645) and Danish (voter number 648)-both of whom have been residing abroad for several years in ...