6 arrested in Shaheen Bagh voter fraud case, crackdown in other areas too

“Srivastava, a cyber café operator in Jasola, was linked to both forgery cases. He forged electricity bills for multiple individuals using PDF editing tools. Chand, a private tutor from Malviya Nagar, collaborated with him in creating fraudulent documents and helped Sachin, a housekeeping employee at a hospital in Delhi, in forging documents for his deaf and mute uncle to transfer land ownership,” DCP Singh said.

The officer further informed that Haq, a cyber café owner from Shaheen Bagh, allegedly used Photoshop to forge electricity bills for Naim, an electrician. “Khatoon, a housewife from Shaheen Bagh, was also found using forged electricity bills to apply for an address change on her voter ID card,” he added.

In addition to these cases, new complaints have been registered regarding alleged fraudulent voter registration applications in Dwarka and Outer North Districts. A formal complaint was lodged by Shelly, ERO of Matiala, with the Bindapur Police Station after it was discovered that applicants Bulbul Kumari and Inderjeet submitted applications for voter registration through Form-6 using alleged forged Aadhaar cards as proof of residence. A similar complaint was submitted against Sampat, Shanti, Parmila Devi, and Rajghar Singh at Dwarka North Police Station.

Furthermore, Narela ERO Mahima Tomar filed a complaint against applicants Shiva Rathi, Pankaj Jain, Rohit Singhal, Amit Dhariwal, Shubham Baisla, and Sumit Kumar for submitting fraudulent applications supported by tampered electricity bills.

The EROs have urged the authorities to verify the authenticity of the documents submitted by these applicants, instructing police, to conduct thorough investigations to determine the extent of the fraud and take necessary actions to prevent similar incidents in the future.

The respective police stations have registered the FIRs under relevant sections and initiated investigations.