Uttar Pradesh: Over 60 BLOs booked in Noida, three suspended in Bahraich amid voter roll revision

The administration in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida has registered first information reports against more than 60 booth-level officers and seven supervisors for allegedly failing to comply with orders from senior officials during the revision of voter rolls in the state, The Indian Express reported on Monday.

In the state’s Bahraich district, the administration has ordered FIRs against five booth-level officers, withheld salaries of 42 personnel and suspended a village-level revenue officer for alleged negligence, PTI quoted officials as saying on Sunday.

On Friday, the district administration suspended two booth-level officers deployed in the Matera and Balha Assembly segments.

Uttar Pradesh is among 12 states and Union Territories where the Election Commission began the enumeration phase of the exercise on November 4.

The booth-level officers are typically primary school teachers and anganwadi or health care workers, who are employed by state governments. They are responsible for distributing and collecting enumeration forms as part of the ongoing exercise.

They are required to go door-to-door, check the identities of new voters and verify the details of those who have died or permanently moved out of an area.

According to the FIRs registered in Noida, the booth-level officers allegedly “did not report to their assigned areas” and “failed to adhere to orders issued by senior officials”, reported The Indian Express.

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