Police in Rampur district have booked a woman for allegedly providing false information about her two sons — both of whom have been living abroad for an extended period — in the voter enumeration forms for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
According to police, Noor Jahan signed the official documents on her sons’ behalf despite their absence from the country. Along with her, police have also booked her sons, Amir Khan and Danish Khan, for their alleged involvement in submitting misleading details to the election authorities.
“They have been booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 237 (using as true such declaration knowing it to be false), 318 (2) (cheating), and The Representation of the People Acts at the Civil Lines police station. No one has been arrested in the case so far,” Circle Officer, Rampur, Jitendra Kumar said.
According to police, complainant Dinesh Kumar, who is appointed as a supervisor for the ongoing revision exercise, said that while verifying the enumeration forms submitted by BLO Nitin Agarwal, he noticed that the forms for Amir and Danish carried the signature of their mother instead of their own.
Kumar said that during a subsequent field inspection, it was discovered that both Amir and Danish had not been living at their registered address in Jwala Nagar for a long time and were, in fact, residing in Kuwait and other countries. Despite their prolonged stay abroad, their enumeration forms were allegedly filled out and signed by their mother and then submitted to the BLO, the complaint added.
