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Poll panelissues fresh instructions on deceased voters list in BengalSIR
The Statesman
|December 06, 2025
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday gave fresh instructions to electoral officers at different levels engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal regarding preparation of a separate list of deceased voters in the state.
An insider from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said the Commission has directed electoral officers to recheck the data of those who have already been identified as deceased voters during the digitisation and mapping of the duly filled enumeration forms with the list for 2002.
This story is from the December 06, 2025 edition of The Statesman.
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