Kolkata, February 15: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has established a deadline for the West Bengal government to file FIRs against election officials implicated in including fake voters in the electoral rolls during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
An insider from the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) office in West Bengal revealed that the commission communicated with the state secretariat on Saturday evening, setting February 17 (Tuesday) as the deadline for filing these FIRs against the errant officials.
The insider stated, “Despite repeated reminders from the ECI to file FIRs against these four errant electoral officials, the state government has been negligent in taking action. Therefore, the commission decided to set a deadline for filing the FIRs.”
The four officials against whom FIRs are to be filed include Debottam Dutta Chaudhary, the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) for the Baruipur East Assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas, and Tathagat Mandal, the Assistant Electoral Registration Officer (AERO) for the same area.
The other two officials are Biplab Sarkar, the ERO for the Moyna Assembly constituency in East Midnapore, and Sudipta Das, the AERO for that region.
It is noteworthy that last August, the ECI headquarters in New Delhi had directed the West Bengal government to suspend these four election officials and file FIRs against them.
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