Archive · 25 Oct 2025
Karnataka SIT Probes Voter List Manipulation by Kalaburagi Data Centre
Imagine someone tried to secretly remove people from the list of voters.
A special team is looking into this in a place called Kalaburagi, India.
They found a data center was paid to make these changes.
They targeted voters in certain areas.
People were removed from the voter list without knowing.
The investigation is trying to figure out who was behind this and why.
They believe some people wanted to change the results of the election by removing voters, mainly from areas where a certain party was popular.
A Kalaburagi data center is suspected of manipulating voter lists.
The SIT is investigating fraudulent deletion requests submitted online through ECI portals.
Candidates from multiple seats in Kalaburagi availed the data center's services.
Searches were conducted on properties linked to the data center operatives.
The investigation revealed funds were transferred to the data center operators via an accountant.
- Who
- Karnataka Special Investigation Team (SIT), and data centre operatives
- What
- Investigation into alleged manipulation of voter lists for the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections
- When
- The investigation started after irregularities were noticed in February 2023, and properties were searched in October
- Where
- Kalaburagi district, Karnataka
- Why
- To investigate fraudulent voter list deletions, possibly to influence election results
Those Alleging Fraud
Those Denying Fraud
Voter Deletions
Those Alleging Fraud
Claimed that many voters were removed from the lists without their knowledge and potentially to benefit certain parties.
Those Denying Fraud
Subhash Guttedar, a BJP candidate, denied any involvement, attributing the events to a Deepavali cleaning process.
- Data Centre Location
- Kalaburagi, Karnataka
- Focus
- Illegal voter list manipulation
- Alleged Manipulation Period
- December 2022 to February 2023
- Payment Per Fraudulent Request
- ₹80
- Number of Seats Affected
- At least 3
- Political Affiliation
- BJP
- Election
- Karnataka Assembly 2023