Voter ID card data theft case one more staff supervising BLO cards to staff to conduct survey arrested

Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)

The Halasurgate police on Saturday arrested one more accused involved in the voters data theft scam.

The accused Shivakumar, employee of Chilume trust and acted as link between his office and BBMP to get the BLO cards for the staff to conduct the survey.

With his arrest the police will have a clear picture about procuring the ID cards for the staff illegally to carry out the survey from whom and whose behest, a senior officer,said.

Meanwhile the police continue to question Ravikumar about the confidential data which they had recovered during the recent raid .

According to the senior officer the data should be with the BBMP or the candidate who is contesting election,But how and why Ravikumar is having the data is being questioned.

Probe so far revealed that Ravikumar had employed around 500 people to survey the city voters to manipulate.

In south division alone the accused have deleted majority of the voters belonging to minority community and replaced with the fresh names .

The team suspect that the voters data has been shared with many politicians and investigations are on to ascertain financial transaction between them.